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The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.
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And the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
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So they gave from the tribe of the children of Judah and from the tribe of the children of Simeon these cities which are designated by name,
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which were for the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for the lot was theirs first.
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And they gave them Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.
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But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
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Thus to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Libnah with its common-land,
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Jattir with its common-land, Eshtemoa with its common-land,
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Holon with its common-land, Debir with its common-land,
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Ain with its common-land, Juttah with its common-land, and Beth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes;
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and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its common-land, Geba with its common-land,