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Joshua Chapter 21Bible in Basic English2: And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle. 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: 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. 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; 14: And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands; 15: And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands; 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; 18: Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns. 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; 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. 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. 28: And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands; 29: Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns. 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. 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. 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. 43: So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place. 44: And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands. 45: The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
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