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Joshua 21:35-22:9

21:35 Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities.21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands,21:37 Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,21:39 Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.21:40 These were all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.21:41 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.21:42 Each of these cities had its pasture lands around it; so it was with all these cities.21:43 So Jehovah gave Israel all the land that He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and dwelt in it.21:44 And Jehovah gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And no one among all their enemies could stand before them; Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their hand.21:45 Not a word failed of all the good things that Jehovah had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.22:2 And he said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and you have listened to my voice in all that I have commanded you.22:3 You have not forsaken your brothers these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.22:4 And now Jehovah your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them. And now turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you across the Jordan.22:5 However be very careful to perform the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and to cling to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.22:6 And Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to their tents.22:7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given an inheritance in Bashan, and to the other half of it Joshua gave an inheritance with their brothers across the Jordan on the west. Furthermore, when Joshua sent them away to their tents and blessed them,22:8 He spoke to them, saying, Return with many riches to your tents and with very many cattle, with silver and with gold and with bronze and with iron and with very much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.22:9 So the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went; and they departed from among the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which was in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they had taken possession of according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.

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Joshua 21:8-34

21:8 So the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as Jehovah had commanded through Moses.
21:9 And out of the tribe of the children of Judah and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon they gave these cities, which are here mentioned by name;
21:10 And they went to the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi; for the first lot was theirs.
21:11 And they gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
21:12 But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
21:13 And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Libnah with its pasture lands
21:14 And Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands
21:15 And Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands
21:16 And Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.
21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,
21:18 Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.
21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
21:20 And as for the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the children of Kohath, the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim were given.
21:21 And they gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Gezer with its pasture lands
21:22 And Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands: four cities.
21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
21:24 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.
21:25 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities.
21:26 All the cities for the families of the children of Kohath who remained were ten, with their pasture lands.
21:27 And to the children of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, they gave, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities.
21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
21:29 Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.
21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher: Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
21:31 Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities.
21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities.
21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands.
21:34 And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, they gave Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands,

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Joshua 20:1 – 21:7

20:1 Then Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Designate the cities of refuge, concerning which I spoke to you through Moses,
20:3 So that the manslayer who kills a person by mistake and unwittingly may flee there. And they will be to you as a refuge from the avenger of blood.
20:4 And he shall flee to one of these cities and stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and give him a place; and he shall dwell among them.
20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he struck his neighbor unwittingly and had not hated him previously.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city until he can stand before the assembly for a judgment, until the death of the high priest who is at that time; then the manslayer shall return and enter into his own city and into his own house, into the city from which he fled.
20:7 And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and Kiriath-arba (this is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
20:8 And across the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain 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.
20:9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourned among them, so that anyone who killed a person by mistake might flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the assembly.
21:1 Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel,
21:2 And they spoke to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Jehovah commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in with their pasture lands for our cattle.
21:3 So the children of Israel gave the Levites, according to the commandment of Jehovah, these cities with their pasture lands out of their inheritance:
21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And to the children of Aaron the priest who were of the Levites there went by lot thirteen cities out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of the Simeonites and out of the tribe of Benjamin.
21:5 And to the rest of the children of Kohath there went by lot ten cities out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
21:6 And to the children of Gershon there went by lot thirteen cities out of the families of the tribe of Issachar and out of the tribe of Asher and out of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
21:7 To the children of Merari according to their families there went twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

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Joshua 19:24-51

19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
19:25 And their territory was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph
19:26 And Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and it reached Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath;
19:27 And it turned toward the rising of the sun to Beth-dagon, and reached Zebulun and the valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel, and went to Cabul on the north
19:28 And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah as far as Great Sidon;
19:29 And the border turned to Ramah and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and its end was at the sea at the region of Achzib;
19:30 And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
19:31 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
19:32 For the children of Naphtali the sixth lot came out, for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
19:33 And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel unto Lakkum; and its end was the Jordan;
19:34 And the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went from there to Hukkok, and reached Zebulun on the south, and reached Asher on the west and Judah at the Jordan toward the rising of the sun;
19:35 And the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth
19:36 And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor
19:37 And Kedesh and Edrei and En-hazor
19:38 And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh: nineteen cities with their villages.
19:39 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
19:40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
19:41 And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh
19:42 And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah
19:43 And Elon and Timnah and Ekron
19:44 And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath
19:45 And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon
19:46 And Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the border opposite Japho.
19:47 When the territory of the children of Dan was lost to them, the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem; and they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword; and they took possession of it and inhabited it; and they called Leshem Dan, according to the name of Dan their father.
19:48 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
19:49 So they finished distributing the land as inheritances according to its borders. And the children of Israel gave Joshua the son of Nun an inheritance in the midst of them;
19:50 According to the commandment of Jehovah they gave him the city that he asked for, that is, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the city and dwelt in it.
19:51 These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave as inheritances by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

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Joshua 19:1-23

19:1 And the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon, according to their families. And their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
19:2 And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah
19:3 And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem
19:4 And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah
19:5 And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah
19:6 And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen: thirteen cities with their villages.
19:7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities with their villages.
19:8 And all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, that is, Ramah of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon because the portion of the children of Judah was too large for them; thus the children of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was as far as Sarid;
19:11 And their border went up to the west, even to Maralah, and reached Dabbesheth; and it reached the brook that is before Jokneam.
19:12 And it turned from Sarid eastward toward the rising of the sun to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and went to Daberath and up to Japhia;
19:13 And from there it passed eastward toward the rising of the sun to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went to Rimmon, where it turned to Neah;
19:14 And the border went around from the north to Hannathon; and its end was the valley of Iphtahel,
19:15 With Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
19:16 This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
19:17 For Issachar the fourth lot came out, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
19:18 And their territory was Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem
19:19 And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath
19:20 And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez
19:21 And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;
19:22 And the border reached Tabor and Shahazumah and Beth-shemesh; and the end of their border was at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
19:23 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.

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