13 Thus (A)to the children of Aaron the priest they gave (B)Hebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), (C)Libnah with its common-land, 14 (D)Jattir with its common-land, (E)Eshtemoa with its common-land, 15 (F)Holon with its common-land, (G)Debir with its common-land, 16 (H)Ain with its common-land, (I)Juttah with its common-land, and (J)Beth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes; 17 and from the tribe of Benjamin, (K)Gibeon with its common-land, (L)Geba with its common-land, 18 Anathoth with its common-land, and (M)Almon 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 (N)And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, the rest of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their [a]lot from the tribe of Ephraim. 21 For they gave them (O)Shechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), (P)Gezer with its common-land,

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 21:20 allotment

13 So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a city of refuge(A) for one accused of murder), Libnah,(B) 14 Jattir,(C) Eshtemoa,(D) 15 Holon,(E) Debir,(F) 16 Ain,(G) Juttah(H) and Beth Shemesh,(I) together with their pasturelands—nine towns from these two tribes.

17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon,(J) Geba,(K) 18 Anathoth(L) and Almon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.

19 The total number of towns(M) for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.(N)

20 The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted towns from the tribe of Ephraim:

21 In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem(O) (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer,(P)

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