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## Joshua 21:8-9 in Context (Verses 5–12 KJV)
 
 [5 ](/kjv/joshua/21/5) And the rest of the children of Kohath *had* by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/joshua/21/6) And the children of Gershon *had* by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/joshua/21/7) The children of Merari by their families *had* out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/joshua/21/8) And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/joshua/21/9) ¶ And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are *here* mentioned by name,*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/joshua/21/10) Which the children of Aaron, *being* of the families of the Kohathites, *who were* of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/joshua/21/11) And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which *city is* Hebron, in the hill *country* of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/joshua/21/12) But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
 
[Joshua 20](/kjv/joshua/20) [Joshua 22](/kjv/joshua/22)

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