1 Chronicles 6:54

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

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  • Gen 25:16 : 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.
  • Num 31:10 : 10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
  • Num 35:1-8 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, 2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns. 3 These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts, 4 Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round. 5 The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns. 6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns. 7 Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them. 8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.
  • Josh 21:3-8 : 3 And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord. 4 And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. 5 The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 6 The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan. 7 The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun. 8 All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.
  • Josh 21:10 : 10 These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 21:10
    80%

    10 These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.

  • 1 Chr 6:55-57
    3 verses
    79%

    55 To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

    56 But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

    57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,

  • 1 Chr 6:63-66
    4 verses
    77%

    63 And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

    64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

    65 And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.

    66 And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.

  • Josh 21:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

    5 The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 21:20
    74%

    20 The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

  • 1 Chr 6:18
    74%

    18 And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  • 1 Chr 6:53
    73%

    53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

  • 1 Chr 6:61
    73%

    61 And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • 1 Chr 6:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

    2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

    3 And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • Num 3:27
    73%

    27 From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

  • 1 Chr 24:31
    72%

    31 Selection was made of these in the same way as of their brothers the sons of Aaron, David the king being present, with Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; the families of the chief in the same way as those of his younger brother.

  • Num 3:19
    72%

    19 And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

  • 2 Chr 31:19
    71%

    19 And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites.

  • Exod 6:24
    71%

    24 And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites.

  • 1 Chr 6:50
    71%

    50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

  • Num 4:34
    71%

    34 So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

  • 1 Chr 6:22
    71%

    22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

  • Josh 19:24
    71%

    24 And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.

  • Num 26:57
    71%

    57 These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

  • 1 Chr 24:5
    70%

    5 So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision, one with another; for there were rulers of the holy place and rulers of the house of God among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.

  • Num 4:37
    70%

    37 This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

  • Num 4:2
    70%

    2 Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

  • 1 Chr 6:48
    70%

    48 And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God.

  • 1 Chr 6:16
    70%

    16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 1 Chr 24:1
    70%

    1 Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • 1 Chr 6:37-38
    2 verses
    69%

    37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

    38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

  • Num 7:9
    69%

    9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.

  • Josh 19:32
    69%

    32 For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came out, for the children of Naphtali by their families;

  • Exod 6:18
    69%

    18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.

  • Num 4:19
    69%

    19 But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

  • Num 3:29
    69%

    29 The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.

  • Josh 14:1
    69%

    1 And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;

  • Isa 34:17
    69%

    17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Num 4:46
    69%

    46 And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

  • Num 26:55
    69%

    55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.

  • Josh 21:26
    69%

    26 All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

  • 1 Chr 24:7
    69%

    7 Now the first name to come out was that of Jehoiarib; the second Jedaiah,

  • Josh 18:11
    69%

    11 And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

  • Num 4:15
    69%

    15 And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

  • 1 Chr 27:17
    68%

    17 Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

  • 1 Chr 6:70
    68%

    70 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.