and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan
in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
020:009 These were the appointed cities for all the children
of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them,
that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood
before the congregation.
021:001 Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites
to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun,
and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of
the children of Israel;
021:002 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in,
with the suburbs of it for our livestock.
021:003 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance,
according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities
with their suburbs.
021:004 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:
and the children of Aaron the priest, who were 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.
021:005 The rest of the children of Kohath 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.
021:006 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.
021:007 The children of Merari according to their families had
out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad,
and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
021:008 The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities
with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
021:009 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,
and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities
which are [here] mentioned by name:
021:010 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families
of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi;
for theirs was the first lot.
021:011 They gave them Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak
(the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah,
with the suburbs of it round about it.
021:012 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they
to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
021:013 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron
with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer,
and Libnah with its suburbs,
021:014 and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
021:015 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
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