Joshua 21
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Joshua 21:16-32

16and Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes (Judah and Simeon).

17From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, and Geba with its pasture lands,

18Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.

19All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

20Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

21They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for anyone who committed manslaughter, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

22and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.

23From the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,

24Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.

25From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.

26All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath totaled ten.

27To the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, they gave from the other half-tribe of Manasseh, [the city of] Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for anyone who committed manslaughter, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

28From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

29Jarmuth with its pasture lands, and En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.

30From the tribe of Asher, they gave Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,

31Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

32From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for anyone who committed manslaughter, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.

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