The Scriptures 1998

Joshua 21:6-24 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

6. And the children of Gĕrshon had thirteen cities by lot from the clans of the tribe of Yissasḵar, from the tribe of Ashĕr, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Menashsheh in Bashan.

7. The children of Merari for their clans had twelve cities from the tribe of Re’uḇĕn, and from the tribe of Gaḏ, and from the tribe of Zeḇulun.

8. Thus the children of Yisra’ĕl gave these cities with their open land by lot to the Lĕwites, as יהוה had commanded by the hand of Mosheh.

9. So from the tribe of the children of Yehuḏah and from the tribe of the children of Shim‛on they gave these cities which are mentioned by name,

10. and they were for the children of Aharon, one of the clans of the Qehathites, who were of the children of Lĕwi, for the lot was theirs first.

11. And they gave them Qiryath Arba, that is Ḥeḇron – Arba was the father of Anaq – in the mountains of Yehuḏah, with the open land surrounding it.

12. And the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh as his possession.

13. But to the children of Aharon the priest they gave Ḥeḇron with its open land – a city of refuge for the slayer – and Liḇnah with its open land,

14. and Yattir with its open land, and Eshtemoa with its open land,

15. and Ḥolon with its open land, and Deḇir with its open land,

16. and Ayin with its open land, and Yuttah with its open land, and Bĕyth Shemesh with its open land – nine cities from those two tribes.

17. And from the tribe of Binyamin, Giḇ‛on with its open land, Geḇa with its open land,

18. Anathoth with its open land, and Almon with its open land – four cities.

19. All the cities of the children of Aharon, the priests, were thirteen cities with their open lands.

20. And the clans of the children of Qehath, the Lĕwites, the rest of the children of Qehath, even they had the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephrayim.

21. And they gave them Sheḵem with its open land in the mountains of Ephrayim as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer with its open land,

22. and Qiḇtsayim with its open land, and Bĕyth Ḥoron with its open land – four cities.

23. And from the tribe of Dan, Elteqĕh with its open land, Gibbethon with its open land,

24. Ayalon with its open land, and Gath Rimmon with its open land – four cities.