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1.    Then the chief fathers of the Levites drew near to Eleazar  the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief  fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
 
2.    and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,  saying, Jehovah commanded through Moses to give us cities to  dwell in, and their suburbs for our cattle.
 
3.    And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their  inheritance, according to the word of Jehovah, these cities and  their suburbs.
 
4.    And the lot came forth for the families of the Kohathites.  And the children of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, had by  lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the  Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
 
5.    And the children of Kohath that remained had by lot out of  the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of  Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
 
6.    And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families  of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and  out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of  Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 
7.    The children of Merari according to their families had by  lot out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad,  and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 
8.    And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these  cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded through Moses.
 
9.    And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,  and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities  which were mentioned by name,
 
10.    and which the children of Aaron, of the families of the  Kohathites, of the children of Levi had (for theirs was the  first lot);
 
11.    and they gave them Kirjath-Arba, which Arba was the  father of Anak, that is, Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with  its suburbs round about it.
 
12.    But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave  they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
 
13.    And they gave to the children of Aaron the priest the city  of refuge for the slayer, Hebron and its suburbs; and Libnah  and its suburbs,
 
14.    and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,
 
15.    and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
 
16.    and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, and  Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two  tribes;
 
17.    and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs,  Geba and its suburbs,
 
18.    Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four  cities.
 
19.    All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were  thirteen cities and their suburbs.
 
20.    And to the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites  that remained of the children of Kohath, they gave cities.  And the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim,
 
21.    and they gave them the city of refuge for the slayer,  Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its  suburbs,
 
22.    and Kibzaim and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its  suburbs: four cities;
 
23.    and out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its suburbs,  Gibbethon and its suburbs,
 
24.    Ajalon and its suburbs, Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: four  cities;
 
25.    and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its  suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.
 
26.    All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the  families of the children of Kohath that remained.
 
27.    And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the  Levites, out of half the tribe of Manasseh, they gave the  city of refuge for the slayer, Golan in Bashan and its suburbs;  and Beeshterah and its suburbs: two cities;
 
28.    and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its suburbs,  Dabrath and its suburbs,
 
29.    Jarmuth and its suburbs, En-gannim and its suburbs: four  cities;
 
30.    and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its suburbs,  Abdon and its suburbs,
 
31.    Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs: four  cities;
 
32.    and out of the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for  the slayer, Kedesh in Galilee, and its suburbs; and Hammoth-Dor  and its suburbs, and Kartan and its suburbs: three cities.
 
33.    All the cities of the Gershonites according to their  families were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
 
34.    And to the families of the children of Merari, that  remained of the Levites, they gave out of the tribe of  Zebulun, Jokneam and its suburbs, Kartah and its suburbs,
 
35.    Dimnah and its suburbs, Nahalal and its suburbs: four  cities;
 
36.    and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and  Jahzah and its suburbs,
 
37.    Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs:  four cities;
 
38.    and out of the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the  slayer, Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs; and Mahanaim and its  suburbs,
 
39.    Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four  cities in all.
 
40.    These were all the cities of the children of Merari  according to their families, which remained of the families of  the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.
 
41.    All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the  children of Israel were forty-eight cities and their suburbs.
 
42.    Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it:  thus were all these cities.
 
43.    And Jehovah gave to Israel all the land which he swore to  give unto their fathers; and they took possession of it, and  dwelt in it.
 
44.    And Jehovah gave them rest round about, according to all  that he had sworn unto their fathers; and there stood not a man  of all their enemies before them: Jehovah gave all their  enemies into their hand.
 
45.    There failed nothing of all the good things that Jehovah  had spoken to the house of Israel: all came to pass.