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Joshua 21:8-12

Joshua 21:8

Now the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

Joshua 21:9

They gave these cities which are mentioned here by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;

Joshua 21:10

and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, because the lot was theirs first.

Joshua 21:11

So they gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.

Joshua 21:12

But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.