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1 Chronicles 6:53-66 English Standard Version (ESV)

53. Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

54. These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot,

55. to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,

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

57. To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,

58. Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

59. Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands;

60. and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.

61. To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

62. To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan.

63. To the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

64. So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.

65. They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.

66. And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.