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Joshua 21:8-19 English Revised Version (ERV)

8. And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of 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 here mentioned by name:

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 her suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with her suburbs;

14. and Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs;

15. and Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs;

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

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

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

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

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