7 aThe children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.
8 aAnd the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands by lot to the Levites, bas the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
9 So they gave from the tribe of the children of Judah and from the tribe of the children of Simeon these cities which are designated by name,
10 which were for the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for the lot was theirs first.
11 aAnd they gave them1 Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of bAnak), cwhich is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.
12 But athe fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
13 Thus ato the children of Aaron the priest they gave bHebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), cLibnah with its common-land,
14 aJattir with its common-land, bEshtemoa with its common-land,
15 aHolon with its common-land, bDebir with its common-land,
16 aAin with its common-land, bJuttah with its common-land, and cBeth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes;
17 and from the tribe of Benjamin, aGibeon with its common-land, bGeba with its common-land,
18 Anathoth with its common-land, and aAlmon with its common-land: four cities.
19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
20 aAnd the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, the rest of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their1 lot from the tribe of Ephraim.
21 For they gave them aShechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), bGezer with its common-land,
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