Numbers 35:8 References
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"aAs for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits."
a Leviticus 25:32-34, Numbers 26:54, Numbers 33:54, Joshua 21:1-42
Leviticus 25
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'As for acities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.
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'What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
Numbers 26
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"aTo the larger group you shall increase their inheritance, and to the smaller group you shall diminish their inheritance; each shall be given their inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.
Numbers 33
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'aYou shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
Joshua 21
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Then the heads of households of athe Levites approached Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
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They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "aThe Lord commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle."
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So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, according to the command of the Lord.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Now the asons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
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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;
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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.
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Thus athey gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the bfather of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.
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But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
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So ato the sons of Aaron the priest they gave bHebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and cLibnah with its pasture lands,
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and Ain with its pasture lands and aJuttah with its pasture lands and bBeth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.
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Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
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All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
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Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the afamilies of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.
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They gave them aShechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
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and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.
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From the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
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Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.
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From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.
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All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
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aTo the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.
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From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
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Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.
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From the tribe of Asher, they gave Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
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Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
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From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave aKedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.
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All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
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To the families of athe sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands.
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Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
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From the tribe of Reuben, they gave aBezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands,
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Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
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From the tribe of Gad, they gave aRamoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and bMahanaim with its pasture lands,
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Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.
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All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
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aAll the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
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These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all these cities.