Joshua 21:40
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.
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- Josh 21:41-422 verses84%
41All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.
42Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.
- Josh 21:3-108 verses83%
3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.
4And 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.
5The 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.
6The 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.
7The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.
8All 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.
9From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:
10These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.
- Josh 21:33-375 verses78%
33All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.
34And 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;
35Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.
36And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;
37Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.
- Josh 21:25-262 verses76%
25And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.
26All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.
- 1 Chr 6:63-653 verses76%
63And 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.
64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.
65And 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.
- Num 35:6-83 verses74%
6And 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.
7Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.
8And 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.
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39Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.
- Josh 21:18-203 verses74%
18Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
19Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
20The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.
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42And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,
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61And 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.
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20And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.
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45This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.
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31Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
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77To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts;
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57These 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.
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33From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.
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29The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;
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22And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.
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19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.
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19And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.
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2Give 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.
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41And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.
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31This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
- Josh 19:38-403 verses67%
38And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.
39This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
40For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;
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16This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
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11And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
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29Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.
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32And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.
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4Because 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.