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JOSHUA CHAPTER 21
Cities given out of the other tribes by lot to the Levites, Jos_21:1-8. Particularly to the priests, the children of Aaron, Jos_21:9-19; to the Levites, the Kohathites, Jos_21:20-26, the Gershonites, Jos_21:27-33, and Merarites, Jos_21:34-40; in all forty-eight cities, with their suburbs, Jos_21:41,42. The Israelites quietly enjoy the Promised Land, Jos_21:43-45.
Then, i.e. when the whole land was distributed unto the several tribes, but not actually possessed by them; which was the proper season for them to put in their claim.
The fathers of the Levites were Kohath, Gershom, and Merari, and the heads of these were the chief persons now alive of these several families.