| Josh. 21:1 |
Then the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, |
| Josh. 21:2 |
And they spoke to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Jehovah commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in with their pasture lands for our cattle. |
| Josh. 21:3 |
So the children of Israel gave the Levites, according to the commandment of Jehovah, these cities with their pasture lands out of their inheritance: |
| Josh. 21:4 |
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And to the children of Aaron the priest who were of the Levites there went by lot thirteen cities out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of the Simeonites and out of the tribe of Benjamin. |
| Josh. 21:5 |
And to the rest of the children of Kohath there went by lot ten cities out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. |
| Josh. 21:6 |
And to the children of Gershon there went by lot thirteen cities 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. |
| Josh. 21:7 |
To the children of Merari according to their families there went twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun. |
| Josh. 21:8 |
So the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as Jehovah had commanded through Moses. |
| Josh. 21:9 |
And out of the tribe of the children of Judah and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon they gave these cities, which are [here] mentioned by name; |
| Josh. 21:10 |
And they went to the children of Aaron, [one] of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi; for the first lot was theirs. |
| Josh. 21:11 |
And they gave them Kiriath-arba ([Arba] was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it. |
| Josh. 21:12 |
But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. |
| Josh. 21:13 |
And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Libnah with its pasture lands |
| Josh. 21:14 |
And Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands |
| Josh. 21:15 |
And Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands |
| Josh. 21:16 |
And Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands [and] Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes. |
| Josh. 21:17 |
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:18 |
Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:19 |
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands. |
| Josh. 21:20 |
And as for the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the children of Kohath, the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim were [given.] |
| Josh. 21:21 |
And they gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Gezer with its pasture lands |
| Josh. 21:22 |
And Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:23 |
And out of the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:24 |
Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:25 |
And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities. |
| Josh. 21:26 |
All the cities for the families of the children of Kohath who remained were ten, with their pasture lands. |
| Josh. 21:27 |
And to the children of Gershon, [one] of the families of the Levites, [they gave,] out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities. |
| Josh. 21:28 |
And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:29 |
Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:30 |
And out of the tribe of Asher: Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:31 |
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:32 |
And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities. |
| Josh. 21:33 |
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands. |
| Josh. 21:34 |
And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, [they gave] Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:35 |
Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:36 |
And out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:37 |
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities. |
| Josh. 21:38 |
And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Mahanaim with its pasture lands, |
| Josh. 21:39 |
Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all. |
| Josh. 21:40 |
[These were] all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities. |
| Josh. 21:41 |
All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands. |
| Josh. 21:42 |
Each of these cities had its pasture lands around it; so it was with all these cities. |
| Josh. 21:43 |
So Jehovah gave Israel all the land that He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and dwelt in it. |
| Josh. 21:44 |
And Jehovah gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And no one among all their enemies could stand before them; Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their hand. |
| Josh. 21:45 |
Not a word failed of all the good things that Jehovah had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass. |