The Book of Joshua - Verse by Verse

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Jos 19:51 These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the households of the tribes of the sons of Israel distributed by lot in Shiloh before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

 

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Joshua 20:1
1 Then the LORD said to Joshua:

 

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Joshua 20:2
2 "Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

 

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Joshua 20:3
3 so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.

 

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Joshua 20:4
4 "When he flees to one of these cities, he is to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state his case before the elders of that city. Then they are to admit him into their city and give him a place to live with them.

 

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Joshua 20:5
5 If the avenger of blood pursues I'm, they must not surrender the one accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.

 

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Joshua 20:6
6 He is to stay in that city until he has stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then he may go back to his own home in the town from which he fled."

 

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Joshua 20:7
7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

 

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Joshua 20:8
8 On the east side of the Jordan of Jericho they designated Bezer in the desert on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.

 

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Joshua 20:9
9 Any of the Israelites or any alien living among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

 

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Joshua 21:1
1 Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel

 

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Joshua 21:2
2 at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, "The LORD commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock."

 

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Joshua 21:3
3 So, as the LORD had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

 

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Joshua 21:4
4 The first lot came out for the Kohathites, clan by clan. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin.

 

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Joshua 21:5
5 The rest of Kohath's descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.

 

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Joshua 21:6
6 The descendants of Gershon were allotted thirteen towns from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

 

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Joshua 21:7
7 The descendants of Merari, clan by clan, received twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.

 

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Joshua 21:8
8 So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

 

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Joshua 21:9
9 From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they allotted the following towns by name

 

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Joshua 21:10
10 (these towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them):