Joshua 21:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Josh 21:4 : 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.
  • Exod 6:18 : 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.
  • Exod 6:20-26 : 20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. 21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. 22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. 23 And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites. 25 And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel; and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites, in the order of their families. 26 These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, Take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in their armies.
  • Num 3:2-4 : 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests. 4 And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.
  • Num 3:19 : 19 And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.
  • Num 3:27 : 27 From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.
  • Num 4:2 : 2 Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

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  • Josh 21:3-9
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    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.

    9 From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

  • Josh 21:19-20
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    19 Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.

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

  • 1 Chr 6:54-55
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    54 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,

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

  • Josh 21:11-13
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    76%

    11 They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.

    12 But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

    13 And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

  • 2 Chr 31:19
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    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.

  • Josh 21:26
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    26 All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

  • 1 Chr 6:61
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    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.

  • Num 18:21
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    21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • 1 Chr 6:64-66
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    72%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 24:31
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 24:7
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    7 Now the first name to come out was that of Jehoiarib; the second Jedaiah,

  • Num 7:9
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    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.

  • Num 10:21
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    21 Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

  • Num 3:27
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    27 From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

  • 1 Chr 24:5
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    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.

  • Josh 21:40
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    40 All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns.

  • Josh 18:11
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    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.

  • Gen 46:11
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    11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

  • Josh 19:24
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    24 And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.

  • Deut 10:9
    70%

    9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

  • 1 Chr 6:1
    70%

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

  • Num 26:57
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    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.

  • Num 3:9
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    9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 6:57
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    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,

  • Josh 14:1-4
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    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;

    2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

    3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

    4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • Josh 19:10
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    10 And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their families; the limit of their heritage was as far as Sarid;

  • Num 4:46
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    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 3:19
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    19 And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

  • Num 4:37
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    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
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    2 Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

  • Josh 21:1
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    1 Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;

  • Num 4:18-19
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    18 Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites;

    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;

  • Josh 21:34
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    34 And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;

  • Num 8:19
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    19 And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.