Joshua 21

Towns Are Given to the Levites

1The leaders of the Levite family groups approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun. They also approached the leaders of the family groups of Israel’s other tribes.

2They went to all of them at Shiloh in Canaan. They said to them, “Give us towns to live in. Also give us grasslands for our livestock. That’s what the Lord commanded through Moses.”

4The first lot drawn out was for the people of Kohath, according to their family groups. Some of the Levites came from the family line of Aaron the priest. They were given 13 towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin.

5The rest of Kohath’s family groups were given ten towns. Those towns were from the family groups of the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and half of the tribe of Manasseh.

6The family groups of Gershon were given 13 towns. Those towns were from the family groups of the tribes of Issachar, Asher and Naphtali and half of the tribe of Manasseh. That part of Manasseh was in the land of Bashan.

7The family groups of Merari received 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun. Each family group received its share.

9Some towns were given from the territories of the tribes of Judah and Simeon.

10The Israelites gave them to the members of the family line of Aaron. The towns were given to the family groups of Kohath. They were Levites. The first lot drawn out was for them. Here are the towns the family groups of Kohath were given.

17The Israelites gave some towns from the tribe of Benjamin to the family groups of Kohath.

21In the hill country of Ephraim they were given

23From the tribe of Dan they received

25From half of the tribe of Manasseh they received

From half of the tribe of Manasseh they received

28From the tribe of Issachar they received

30From the tribe of Asher they received

32From the tribe of Naphtali they received

From the tribe of Zebulun they received

36From the tribe of Reuben they received

38From the tribe of Gad they received

43So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had promised to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And Israel took it over. Then they made their homes there.

44The Lord gave them peace and rest on every side. He had promised their people of long ago that he would do that. Not one of Israel’s enemies was able to fight against them and win. The Lord handed all their enemies over to them.

45The Lord kept all the good promises he had made to the Israelites. Every one of them came true.

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