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Joshua 21:8-20 American Standard Version (ASV)

8. And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by Moses.

9. And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are

10. and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

11. And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

12. But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

13. And unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with its suburbs,

14. and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

15. and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,

16. and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

17. And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,

18. Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.

19. All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

20. And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

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