1 Chronicles 6
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1 Chronicles 6:39-66

39Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their territories. To Aaron’s sons of the Kohathite families (for theirs was the first lot),

40to them they assigned Hebron in the land of Judah, and the open land around it;

41but the fields of the city and the villages, they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

42To sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, also Libnah with its open land, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its open land,

43Hilen with its open land, Debir with its open land,

44Ashan with its open land, and Beth-shemesh with its open land.

45From the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its open land, and Alemeth with its open land, and Anathoth with its open land. They had 13 cities in all among their families.

46To the rest of the sons of Kohath ten cities were assigned by lot from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

47To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, 13 cities were assigned from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from tribe of Naphtali and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

48To the sons of Merari 12 cities were assigned by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

49So Bnei-Yisrael gave to the Levites the cities with their open land.

50They also assigned by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities that were mentioned by name.

51Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

52They assigned to them as cities of refuge: Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its open land, Gezer also with its open land,

53Jokmeam with its open land, Beth-horon with its open land

54Aijalon with its open land, and Gath-rimmon with its open land.

55Also from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its open land and Bileam with its open land, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

56To the sons of Gershom were assigned, from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its open land and Ashtaroth with its open land,

57and from the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its open land, Dobrath with its open land,

58Ramoth with its open land, and Anem with its open land,

59and from the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its open land, Abdon with its open land,

60Hukok with its open land, Rehob with its open land,

61and from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its open land, Hammon with its open land and Kiriathaim with its open land.

62To the rest—the sons of Merari—were assigned, from the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its open land, Tabor with its open land,

63and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its open land, Jahaz with its open land,

64Kedemoth with its open land, and Mephaath with its open land

65and from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its open land, Mahanaim with its open land,

66Heshbon with its open land, and Jazer with its open land.

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