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Joshua 21:9-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)

9. They gave from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities here mentioned by name,

10. Which went to the families of the descendants of Aaron, of the Kohathite branch of the Levites, for the lot fell to them first.

11. They gave them [the city of] Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasturelands round about it.

12. But the city's fields and villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his own.

13. Thus to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasturelands (suburbs), and together with their suburbs, Libnah,

14. Jattir, Eshtemoa,

15. Holon, Debir,

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

17. Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba,

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

19. The cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen, with their suburbs.

20. The rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Levitical families were allotted cities out of the tribe of Ephraim.

21. To them were given, each with its pasturelands (suburbs), Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, as the city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer,

22. And Kibzaim, and Beth-horon; four cities, each with its pasturelands (suburbs).

23. And out of the tribe of Dan, each with its pasturelands (suburbs), Eltekeh, Gibbethon,

24. Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon; four cities, each with its pasturelands (suburbs).

25. And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach, and [another] Gath-rimmon; two cities, each with its pasturelands (suburbs).

26. All the cities for the families of the remaining Kohathites were ten, with their pasturelands (suburbs).

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