1 Chronicles 6:54
Good News Translation
This is the territory assigned to the descendants of Aaron of the clan of Kohath. They received the first share of the land assigned to the Levites.

New Revised Standard Version
These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Kohathites—for the lot fell to them first—

Contemporary English Version
Aaron's descendants belonged to the Levite clan of Kohath, and they were the first group chosen to receive towns to live in.

New American Bible
The following were their dwelling places, by encampments in their territories. To the sons of Aaron who belonged to the clan of the Kohathites, since the lot fell to them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.

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And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.

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2561. B.C.

1443. these are.

Numbers 35:1-8 And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho: . . .

Joshua 21:3-8 And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs. . . .

castles.

Genesis 25:16 These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

Numbers 31:10 And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.

Psalm 69:25 Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

Proverbs 18:10,11 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted. . . .

Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

of the families.

Joshua 21:4,5 And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin, thirteen cities. . . .

for their's.

1 Chronicles 21:4 But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.

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Context
Territories for the Levites
54And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.55And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:…
Cross References
Numbers 3:27
Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names:

Joshua 21:4
And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

Joshua 21:10
To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of Levi (for the first lot came out for them)

1 Chronicles 6:53
Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.

1 Chronicles 6:53
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