The King James Version Bible

1 Chronicles 6:49-67

  1. But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

  2. And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

  3. Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

  4. Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

  5. Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

  6. Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

  7. And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.

  8. But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

  9. And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

  10. And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,

  11. And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:

  12. And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

  13. And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.

  14. And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

  15. Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

  16. And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

  17. And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.

  18. And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.

  19. And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,