Joshua 21:3
And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.
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Joshua 21:3
And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.
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Joshua 21:1
Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;
Joshua 21:2
And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.
Genesis 49:7
A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
Numbers 35:8
And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:22
In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.
Numbers 35:2
Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.
Numbers 35:3
These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,
Numbers 35:4
Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.
Numbers 35:5
The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.
Numbers 35:6
And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.
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Leviticus 25:32
But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.
Leviticus 25:33
And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.
Leviticus 25:34
But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.
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