1 Chronicles 6
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1 Chronicles 6:54-65

54Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first allocation by lot)

55to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasture land;

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

57To the sons of Aaron they gave the following cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

58Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

59Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

60and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, with their pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

61Then to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given ten cities by lot from the family of the tribe [of Ephraim and of Dan and], from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh.

62To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and [the other half of] Manasseh in Bashan.

63To the sons of Merari were given twelve cities by lot, according to their families, from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

64So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands.

65They gave by lot from the tribes of the sons of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities which are mentioned by name.

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