These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 21
Tanakh 45 verses
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Then came near the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the , and unto the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of ;
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and they spoke unto them at in the land of , saying: ‘The commanded by the hand of to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.’
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And the children of gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the of , these cities with the open land about them.
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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites; and the children of the , who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of , and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of , thirteen cities.
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- 5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of , and out of the tribe of , and out of the half-tribe of , ten cities.
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And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of , and out of the tribe of , and out of the tribe of , and out of the half-tribe of in , thirteen cities.
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The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of , and out of the tribe of , and out of the tribe of , twelve cities.
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And the children of gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with the open land about them, as commanded by the hand of .
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And they gave out of the tribe of the children of , and out of the tribe of the children of , these cities which are here mentioned by .
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And they were for the children of , of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of ; for theirs was the first lot.
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- 11 And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak—the same is —in the hill-country of , with the open land round about it.
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But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
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And unto the children of the they gave with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with the open land about it;
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and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it;
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and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir with the open land about it;
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and Ain with the open land about it, and Juttah with the open land about it, and Beth-shemesh with the open land about it; nine cities out of those two tribes.
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And out of the tribe of , Gibeon with the open land about it, Geba with the open land about it;
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Anathoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities.
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- 19 All the cities of the children of , the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
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And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of .
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And they gave them with the open land about it in the hill-country of , the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with the open land about it;
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and Kibzaim with the open land about it, and Beth-horon with the open land about it; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of , Elteke with the open land about it, Gibbethon with the open land about it;
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Aijalon with the open land about it, Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; four cities.
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And out of the half-tribe of , Taanach with the open land about it, and Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; two cities.
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- 26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with the open land about them.
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And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of they gave Golan in with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities.
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And out of the tribe of , Kishion with the open land about it, Dobrath with the open land about it;
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Jarmuth with the open land about it, En-gannim with the open land about it; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of , Mishal with the open land about it, Abdon with the open land about it;
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Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of , Kedesh in with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with the open land about it, and Kartan with the open land about it; three cities.
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- 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
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And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of , Jokneam with the open land about it, and Kartah with the open land about it;
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- 35 Dimnah with the open land about it, Nahalal with the open land about it; four cities.
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[ And out of the tribe of , Bezer with the open land about it, and Jahaz with the open land about it;
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- 37 Kedemoth with the open land about it, and Mephaath with the open land about it; four cities.]
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And out of the tribe of , Ramoth in with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with the open land about it;
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- 39 Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in all.
- 40 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
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All the cities of the Levites—forty and eight cities with the open land about them—shall be in the midst of the possession of the children of ,
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- 42 even these cities, every one with the open land round about it; thus it shall be with all these cities.
- 43 So gave unto all the land which He swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
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And gave them rest round about, according to all that He swore unto their fathers; and there stood not a man of all their enemies against them; delivered all their enemies into their hand.
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There failed not aught of any good thing which had spoken unto the house of ; all came to pass.
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