Verses
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- As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess. …
- “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities. …
- Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribes of Israel …
- So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah, …
- For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
- Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.
- So the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa, …
- Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of the house of God;
- The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.
- “When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy. …
- Bordering the territory of Judah, from east to west, will be the portion you are to set apart. It will be 25,000 cubits wide, and the length of a tribal portion from east to west. In the center will be the sanctuary. …