Joshua Chapter 21
Joshua is the 6th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains Joshua 21:1 to Joshua 21:9.
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Joshua 21:1
Then the heads of households of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
Joshua 21:2
They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle."
Joshua 21:3
So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, according to the command of the LORD.
Joshua 21:4
Then the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, received thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin.
Joshua 21:5
The rest of the sons of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 21:6
The sons of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
Joshua 21:7
The sons of Merari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.
Joshua 21:8
Now the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Joshua 21:9
They gave these cities which are here mentioned by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;
Joshua 21:10
and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, for the lot was theirs first.
Joshua 21:11
Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.
Joshua 21:12
But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Joshua 21:13
So to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Libnah with its pasture lands,
Joshua 21:14
and Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
Joshua 21:15
and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands,
Joshua 21:16
and Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.
Joshua 21:17
From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,
Joshua 21:18
Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Joshua 21:19
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Joshua 21:20
Then 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.
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