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Joshua 21:19-39 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

19. All the cities together of the sons of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs.

20. Yet truly, the remainder of the families of the sons of Kohath, of the stock of Levi, were given this possession:

21. from the tribe of Ephraim, Shechem, one of the cities of refuge, with its suburbs, on mount Ephraim, and Gezer,

22. and Kibzaim, and Beth-horon, with their suburbs, four cities;

23. and from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon,

24. and Aijalon and Gath-Rimmon, with their suburbs, four cities;

25. then, from the one half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-Rimmon, with their suburbs, two cities.

26. All the cities were ten, with their suburbs; these were given to the sons of Kohath, of the lesser degree.

27. Likewise, to the sons of Gershon, of the stock of Levi, from the one half tribe of Manasseh, went Golan in Bashan, one of the cities of refuge, and Bosra, with their suburbs, two cities;

28. also, from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion, and Daberath,

29. and Jarmuth, and Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities;

30. then, from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon,

31. and Helkath and Rehob, with their suburbs, four cities;

32. likewise, from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee, one of the cities of refuge, and Hammoth-Dor, and Kartan, with their suburbs, three cities.

33. All the cities of the families of Gershon were thirteen, with their suburbs.

34. Then, to the sons of Merari, Levites of the lesser degree, by their families, were given, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah,

35. and Dimnah and Nahalal, four cities with their suburbs;

36. from the tribe of Reuben, beyond the Jordan, opposite Jericho, Bezer in the wilderness, one of the cities of refuge, Misor and Jazer, and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs;

37. from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth of Gilead, one of the cities of refuge, and Mahanaim and Heshbon and Jazer, four cities with their suburbs.

38. All the cities of the sons of Merari, by their families and extended families, were twelve.

39. And so all the cities of the Levites, in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel, were forty-eight,

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