◄ 1 Chronicles 6:64 ►
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Good News Translation
In this way the people of Israel assigned towns for the Levites to live in, together with the pasture lands around the towns. (

New Revised Standard Version
So the people of Israel gave the Levites the towns with their pasture lands.

Contemporary English Version
So the people of Israel gave the Levites towns to live in and the pastureland around them.

New American Bible
The clans of the Gershonites obtained thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, and Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

the children.

Joshua 21:41,42 So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight, . . .

with their.

Numbers 35:2-5 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions, . . .

Context
Territories for the Levites
…63And to the sons of Merari by their families out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon, they gave by lot twelve cities. 64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.65And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.…
Cross References
Numbers 35:1
And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:

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

Joshua 21:41
So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,

1 Chronicles 6:63
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