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1 Chronicles 6:54-68 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

54. And these are their dwellings according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for the first lot was theirs,

55. and they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,

56. but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

57. To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,

58. Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

59. Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-Shemesh with its pasturelands.

60. And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities were thirteen cities throughout their clans.

61. To the Kohathites who remained from the family of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, were given by lot ten cities.

62. To the Gershomites according to their clans thirteen cities were allotted out of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

63. To the Merarites twelve cities were allotted according to their clans out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

64. So the Israelites gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.

65. And they gave by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.

66. And of the clans of the sons of Kohath were cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.

67. And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

68. Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-Horon with its pasturelands,

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