Joshua 21:7

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The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.

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  • Josh 21:34-40 : 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. 36 And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands; 37 Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns. 38 And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands; 39 Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns. 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.
  • 1 Chr 6:63 : 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.
  • 1 Chr 6:77-81 : 77 To 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; 78 And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts, 79 And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts; 80 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts, 81 And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.
  • Exod 6:19 : 19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.
  • Num 3:20 : 20 And 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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  • 1 Chr 6:60-65
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    87%

    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.

  • Josh 21:39-42
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    83%

    39 Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

    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 21:3-6
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    81%

    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.

  • Josh 21:30-37
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    30 And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:

    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.

    36 And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;

    37 Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Josh 21:8-10
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    78%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 6:77-78
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    76%

    77 To 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;

    78 And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts,

  • Josh 21:25-26
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    74%

    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.

  • Josh 19:16
    74%

    16 This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

  • Josh 21:19-20
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    74%

    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.

  • Num 34:14
    73%

    14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers' families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been given their heritage:

  • Josh 20:8
    72%

    8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 19:31
    71%

    31 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

  • Num 4:42
    71%

    42 And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

  • Josh 13:28
    71%

    28 This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places

  • Josh 13:15
    71%

    15 And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.

  • Josh 19:23
    71%

    23 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

  • Josh 19:7
    71%

    7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;

  • Num 35:7
    71%

    7 Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

  • Num 26:57
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 13:23
    70%

    23 And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.

  • Josh 21:16-17
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    70%

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

    17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;

  • Josh 18:21
    70%

    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

  • Num 26:7
    70%

    7 These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

  • Josh 14:4
    70%

    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 22:21
    70%

    21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,

  • Josh 21:22
    70%

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