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1 Chronicles 6:49-66 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

49. Truly, Aaron and his sons were burning offerings upon the altar of holocausts and upon the altar of incense, for the entire work of the Holy of Holies, and to pray on behalf of Israel, in accord with all the things that Moses, the servant of God, had instructed.

50. Now these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

51. Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

52. Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

53. Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

54. And these are their habitations according to the villages and confines, specifically of the sons of Aaron, according to the kindred of the Kohathites. For it fell to them by lot.

55. And so, they gave Hebron, in the land of Judah, and its suburbs all around, to them,

56. but they gave the fields of the city, and the villages, to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

57. Then, to the sons of Aaron, they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah with its suburbs,

58. also Jattir and Eshtemoa with their suburbs, then also Hilen and Debir with their suburbs,

59. as well as Ashan and Beth-shemesh with their suburbs.

60. And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its suburbs, and Alemeth with its suburbs, as well as Anathoth with its suburbs. All the cities throughout their kindred were thirteen.

61. Now to the sons of Kohath, those remaining from their kindred, they gave ten cities, from the one half tribe of Manasseh, as a possession;

62. and to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe Manasseh in Bashan: thirteen cities.

63. Then to the sons of Merari, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, they gave by lot twelve cities.

64. Also, the sons of Israel gave, to the Levites, cities and their suburbs,

65. and they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities, which they called by their names.

66. And for those who were from the kindred of the sons of Kohath, the cities with their borders were from the tribe of Ephraim.