cSee ver. 34-40
Genesis 46:11
11The sons of aLevi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.Numbers 3:20
20And the sons of Merari by their clans: bMahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.Joshua 21:7
7The cMerarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.Joshua 21:34-40
34 dAnd to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands, 35Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities; 36and out of the tribe of Reuben, eBezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands, 37Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities; 38and out of the tribe of Gad, fRamoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, gMahanaim with its pasturelands, 39 hHeshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands—four cities in all. 40As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.1 Chronicles 6:77-81
77 iTo the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: jRimmono with its pasturelands, kTabor with its pasturelands, 78and lbeyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, 79Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands; 80and out of the tribe of Gad: mRamoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, nMahanaim with its pasturelands, 81 oHeshbon with its pasturelands, and pJazer with its pasturelands.
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