fSee Ex. 32:26-29
sSee ver. 57-60
Genesis 49:7
7Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will adivide them in Jacob
and scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:8-10
8And bof Levi he said,“Give to Levi ▼
▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks Give to Levi
dyour Thummim,and your Urim to your godly one,
ewhom you tested at Massah,
with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;
9who said of his father and mother,
‘I regard them not’;
fhe disowned his brothers
and ignored his children.
For gthey observed your word
and kept your covenant.
10 hThey shall teach Jacob your rules
and Israel your law;
ithey shall put incense before you
and jwhole burnt offerings on your altar.
1 Chronicles 6:54-81
54These are their dwelling places according to their ksettlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the lclans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot, 55to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, 56 mbut the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 nTo the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 58Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 59Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands; 60and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac (compare Joshua 21:17); Hebrew lacks Gibeon
Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen. 61 pTo the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 62To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan. 63 qTo the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. 64 rSo the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. 65They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin sthese cities that are mentioned by name.
66 tAnd some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. 67They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, 68 uJokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, 69Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands, 70and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.
71 vTo the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and wAshtaroth with its pasturelands; 72and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, 73Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands; 74out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, 75Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands; 76and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. 77 xTo the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: yRimmono with its pasturelands, zTabor with its pasturelands, 78and aabeyond 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: abRamoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, acMahanaim with its pasturelands, 81 adHeshbon with its pasturelands, and aeJazer with its pasturelands.
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