A reading from the book of Joshua. Then the heads of the father's houses of the Levites came to

Eliezer the priest, and to Joshua the son of nun, and to the heads of the father's houses of the

tribes of the people of Israel, and they said to them at Shiloh and the land of Canaan. The Lord commanded

through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their

pasture lands for our livestock. So by command of the Lord, the people of Israel gave to the

Levites the following cities and pasture lands out of their inheritance. The lot came out for the

clans of the Coethahites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron, the priest, received by lot from the tribes

of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin, 13 cities. And the rest of the Coetheites received by lot from the clans

of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. The Gershanites

received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issyr,

from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naftali, and from the half tribe of Manasa and Bacian,

13 cities. The Miraites, according to their clans, received from the tribe of Rubin,

the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulin, 12 cities. These cities in their pasture

lands, the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

Out of the tribe of the people of Judah, and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following

cities mentioned by name, which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the

Coethahites, who belonged to the people of Levi, since the lot fell to them first. They gave them

Curieth Arba, Arba being the father of Anak, that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah,

along with the pasture lands around it, but the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jafuna as his possession.

And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, Libna with its pasture lands, Jadder with its pasture lands, Eshtamoa with its pasture lands, Holon with its pasture lands, Deber

with its pasture lands, Ayan with its pasture lands, Jutta with its pasture lands, Beth Shamesh with its

pastoralands, nine cities out of these two tribes, then out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibbon

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