Verse 3

So the children of Israel gaue vnto the Leuites, out of their inheritance at the commaundement of the Lord these cities with their suburbes.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruell: I will deuide them in Iaakob, and scatter them in Israel.
• Deut 33:8-9 : 8 And of Leui he said, Let thy Thummim and thine Vrim be with thine Holy one, whome thou diddest proue in Massah, and didst cause him to striue at the waters of Meribah. 9 Who said vnto his father and to his mother, I haue not seene him, neither knewe he his brethren, nor knewe his owne children: for they obserued thy word, and kept thy couenant. 10 They shall teach Iaakob thy iudgements, & Israel thy Lawe: they shall put incense before thy face, and the burnt offring vpon thine altar.
• 1 Chr 6:54-81 : 54 And these are the dwelling places of them throughout their townes and coastes, euen of the sonnes of Aaron for the familie of the Kohathites, for the lot was theirs. 55 So they gaue them Hebron in the lande of Iudah and the suburbes thereof rounde about it. 56 But the fielde of the citie, and the villages thereof they gaue to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh. 57 And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the cities of Iudah for refuge, euen Hebron and Libna with their suburbes, and Iattir, and Eshtemoa with their suburbes, 58 And Hilen with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes, 59 And Ashan and her suburbes, and Bethshemesh and her suburbes: 60 And of the tribe of Beniamin, Geba and her suburbes, and Alemeth with her suburbes, and Anathoth with her suburbes: all their cities were thirteene cities by their families. 61 And vnto the sonnes of Kohath the remnant of the familie of the tribe, euen of the halfe tribe of the halfe of Manasseh, by lot ten cities. 62 And to the sonnes of Gershom according to 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, thirteene cities. 63 Vnto the sonnes of Merari according to their families out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, by lot twelue cities. 64 Thus the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities with their suburbes. 65 And they gaue by lot out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, these cities, which they called by their names. 66 And they of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities and their coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim. 67 And they gaue vnto them cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, and her suburbes, and Gezer and her suburbes, 68 Iokmeam also and her suburbes, and Bethhoron with her suburbes, 69 And Aialon and her suburbes, and Gath Rimmon and her suburbes, 70 And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Aner and her suburbes, and Bileam and her suburbes, for the families of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath. 71 Vnto the sonnes of Gershom out of the familie of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan, and her suburbes, and Ashtaroth with her suburbes, 72 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh and her suburbes, Daberath and her suburbes, 73 Ramoth also and her suburbes, and Anem with her suburbes, 74 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal and her suburbes, and Abdon and her suburbes, 75 And Hukok and her suburbs, and Rehob and her suburbes, 76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilea and her suburbes, and Hammon and her suburbes, and Kiriathaim and her suburbes. 77 Vnto the rest of the children of Merari were giuen out of ye tribe of Zebulun Rimmon and her suburbes, Tabor and her suburbes, 78 And on the other side Iorden by Iericho, euen on the Eastside of Iorden, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbes, and Iahzah with her suburbes, 79 And Kedemoth with her suburbes, & Mephaath with her suburbes, 80 And out of the tribe of Gad Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbes, and Mahanaim with her suburbes, 81 And Heshbon with her suburbes, and Iaazer with her suburbes.