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Joshua 21:8-29

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8And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites these cities with their open spaces, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, by lot.
9And they gave from the tribe of the children of Judah, and from the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are called by name.
10And the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kehathites, of the children of Levi, obtained them;—for they had the first lot.
11And they gave unto them Kiryath-arba', the father of 'Anak, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with the open spaces thereof round about it;
12But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Yephunneh for his possession.
13And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hebron with its open spaces, and Libnah with its open spaces,
14And Yattir with its open spaces, and Eshtemoa' with its open spaces.
15And Cholon with its open spaces, and Debir with its open spaces,
16And 'Ayin with its open spaces, and Yuttah with its open spaces, and Beth-shemesh with its open spaces: nine cities from those two tribes.
17And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gib'on with its open spaces, Geba' with its open spaces,
18'Anathoth with its open spaces, and 'Almon with its open spaces: four cities.
19All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their open spaces.
20And the families of the children of Kehath, the Levites, who remained of the children of Kehath, obtained the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim.
21And they gave to them the city of refuge for the manslayer, Shechem with its open spaces in the mountain of Ephraim, and Gezer with its open spaces,
22And Kibzayim with its open spaces, and Beth-choron with its open spaces: four cities.
23And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its open spaces, Gibbethon with its open spaces,
24Ayalon with its open spaces, Gath-rimmon with its open spaces: four cities.
25And from the half tribe of Menasseh, Ta'nach with its open spaces, and Gath-rimmon with its open spaces: two cities.
26All the cities were ten with their open spaces for the families of the children of Kehath that remained.
27And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the other half tribe of Menasseh the city of refuge for the manslayer, Golan in Bashan with its open spaces, and Be'eshterah with its open spaces: two cities.
28And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishyon with its open spaces, Daberath with its open spaces,
29Yarmuth with its open spaces, 'En-gannim with its open spaces: four cities.

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