Chapter 21 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the
priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel.
And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded
by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our
cattle.
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance,
at the commandment of the Lord these cities and their suburbs.
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites.
And the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out
of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of
Benjamin thirteen cities.
And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of
Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh ten
cities.
And the children of Gershon had by lot 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, thirteen cities.
The children of Morari, by their families, had out of the tribe of Reuben,
and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their
suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of
the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name, which the
children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the
children of Levi, had, for theirs was the first lot.
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron,
in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb,
the son of Jephunneh, for his possession.
Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron with her suburbs,
to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Libna with her suburbs, and Jadar with
her suburbs, and Eshtemoah with her suburbs, and Holon with her suburbs,
and Debar with her suburbs, and Ein with her suburbs, and Jehtah with her suburbs,
and Beth-she-mesh with her suburbs.
Nine cities out of those two tribes.
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her
suburbs, Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs, four cities.
All the cities of the children of Aaron the priests were thirteen cities with
their suburbs.
And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the
children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of
Ephraim.
For they gave them Shechem, with her suburbs, and Mount Ephraim, to be a city
of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer, with her suburbs, and Kibzaim,
with her suburbs, and Bethhoran, with her suburbs, four cities,
and out of the tribe of Dan, Eltika, with her suburbs, Gibethon, with her
suburbs, Ejlon, with her suburbs, Gathrimmon, with her suburbs, four cities,
and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Tanak, with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon,
with her suburbs, two cities.
All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath
that remained.
And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites,
out of the other half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan and Bashan, with her
suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Biestora, with her suburbs,
two cities, and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kaishon, with her suburbs,
Daburot, with her suburbs, Jarmoth, with her suburbs, and Ganim, with her
suburbs, four cities, and out of the tribe of Asher, Myshul, with her suburbs,
Abdan, with her suburbs, Elkath, with her suburbs, and Rehob, with her
suburbs, four cities, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee,
with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, And Hamath-dor with her
suburbs, and Cartan with her suburbs, three cities.
All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their families, were thirteen
cities with their suburbs.
And unto the families of the children of Morarai, the rest of the Levites,
out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jochnium with her suburbs, and Carta with her suburbs,
Dimna with her suburbs, Nahalul with her suburbs, four cities.
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jehaza with
her suburbs, Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaoth with her suburbs,
four cities.
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth, and Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city
of refuge for the slayer, and Mahanaim with her suburbs, Heshbon with her
suburbs, Jezer with her suburbs, four cities in all.
So all the cities for the children of Morarai by their families, which were
remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were
forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them, thus were all
these cities.
And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he swore to give unto their fathers,
and they possessed it and dwelt therein.
And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore unto their
fathers.
And there stood not a man of all their enemies before them.
The Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.
There failed not out of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house
of Israel.
All came to pass.