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Joshua 21
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And the heads of the fathers of the Lewites came near to El`azar the priest, to Yehoshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra`el.
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And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Kena'an, saying, ' YHWH commanded through Mosheh to give us cities to dwell in, with their open land for our livestock.'
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So the children of Yisra'el gave to the Lewites from their inheritance, at the command of YHWH, these cities and their open land:
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And the lot came out for the clans of the Qehathites. And the children of Aharon the priest, who were of the Lewites, had thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Yehudah, from the tribe of Shim'on, and from the tribe of Binyamin.
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And the rest of the children of Qehath had ten cities by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephrayim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Menashsheh.
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And the children of Gereshon had thirteen cities by lot from the clans of the tribe of Yissaskar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Menashsheh in Bashan.
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The children of Merari for their clans had twelve cities from the tribe of Re'uben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.
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Thus the children of Yisra'el gave these cities with their open land by lot to the Lewites, as YHWH had commanded by the hand of Mosheh.
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So from the tribe of the children of Yehudah and from the tribe of the children of Shim'on they gave these cities which are mentioned by name,
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and they were for the children of Aharon, one of the clans of the Qehathites, who were of the children of Lewi, for the lot was theirs first.
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And they gave them Qiryath Arba, that is Hebron - Arba was the father of Anaq - in the mountains of Yehudah, with the open land surrounding it.
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And the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Kaleb son of Yephunneh as his possession.
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But to the children of Aharon the priest they gave Hebron with its open land - a city of refuge for the slayer - and Libnah with its open land,
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and Yattir with its open land, and Eshtemoa with its open land,
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and Holon with its open land, and Debir with its open land,
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and Ayin with its open land, and Yuttah with its open land, and Beyth Shemesh with its open land - nine cities from those two tribes.
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And from the tribe of Binyamin, Gib'on with its open land, Geba with its open land,
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Anathoth with its open land, and Almon with its open land - four cities.
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All the cities of the children of Aharon, the priests, were thirteen cities with their open lands.
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And the clans of the children of Qehath, the Lewites, the rest of the children of Qehath, even they had the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephrayim.
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And they gave them Shekem with its open land in the mountains of Ephrayim as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer with its open land,
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and Qibtsayim with its open land, and Beyth Horon with its open land - four cities.
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And from the tribe of Dan, Elteqeh with its open land, Gibbethon with its open land,
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Ayalon with its open land, and Gath Rimmon with its open land - four cities.
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And from the half-tribe of Menashsheh, Ta'nak with its open land, and Gath Rimmon with its open land - two cities.
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All the ten cities with their open lands were for the rest of the clans of the children of Qehath.
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And to the children of Gereshon, of the clans of the Lewites, from the other half-tribe of Menashsheh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its open land as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Be'eshterah with its open land - two cities.
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And from the tribe of Yissaskar, Qishyon with its open land, Daberath with its open land,
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Yarmuth with its open land, and En Gannim with its open land - four cities.
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And from the tribe of Asher, Mish'al with its open land, Abdon with its open land,
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Helqath with its open land, and Rehob with its open land - four cities.
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And from the tribe of Naphtali, Qedesh in Galil with its open land as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Hammoth Dor with its open land, and Qartan with its open land - three cities.
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All the cities of the Gereshonites for their clans were thirteen cities with their open land.
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And to the clans of the children of Merari, the rest of the Lewites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Yoqne'am with its open land, Qartah with its open land,
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Dimnah with its open land, Nahalal with its open land - four cities.
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And from the tribe of Re'uben, Betser with its open land, Yahtsah with its open land,
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Qedemoth with its open land, and Mepha'ath with its open land - four cities.
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And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gil'ad with its open land as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Mahanayim with its open land,
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Heshbon with its open land, Ya'zer with its open land - four cities in all.
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All the cities for the children of Merari for their clans, the rest of the clans of the Lewites, were by their lot twelve cities.
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All the cities of the Lewites within the possession of the children of Yisra'el were forty-eight cities with their open lands.
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Each of these cities had its open land surrounding it. So it was with all these cities.
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Thus YHWH gave to Yisra'el all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it, and dwelt in it.
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And YHWH gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them, YHWH gave all their enemies into their hand.
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Not a word failed of any good word which YHWH had spoken to the house of Yisra'el - all came in.
Joshua 21
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