Joshua 21:5

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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.

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  • Josh 21:20-26 : 20 The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim. 21 And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands; 22 And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns. 23 And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands; 24 Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns. 25 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns. 26 All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.
  • 1 Chr 6:18-19 : 18 And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.
  • 1 Chr 6:61 : 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 6:66-70 : 66 And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim. 67 And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts, 68 And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts, 69 And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts; 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.
  • Gen 46:11 : 11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
  • Exod 6:16-25 : 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families. 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. 19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations. 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.
  • 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.

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  • Josh 21:19-23
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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.

    21 And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

    22 And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.

    23 And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;

  • 1 Chr 6:60-66
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    60 And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.

    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.

    62 And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns.

    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 21:3-4
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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.

  • Josh 21:25-27
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    25 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.

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

    27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

  • Josh 21:6-10
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    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:

    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.

  • Josh 14:2-4
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    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 17:2
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    2 And as for the rest of the children of Manasseh, their heritage was given to them by families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, by their families.

  • Josh 21:40-42
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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.

    41 All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

    42 Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

  • Josh 16:9
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    9 Together with the towns marked out for the children of Ephraim in the heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their unwalled places.

  • 1 Chr 6:70
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    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.

  • Josh 21:31-35
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    31 Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

    32 And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

    33 All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.

    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;

    35 Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Josh 19:40
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    40 For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;

  • Josh 21:37
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    37 Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • 1 Chr 6:54
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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,

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

  • Josh 21:16
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    16 And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.

  • Josh 19:31-32
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    31 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

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

  • Josh 18:21
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    21 And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz

  • Josh 19:48
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    48 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

  • 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.

  • Num 35:8
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    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 17:5
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    5 And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan;

  • Josh 13:29
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    29 And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of Manasseh by their families.

  • 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.