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At Shiloh, in the land of Canaan, they told them, ‘The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.’(A) So the Israelites, by the Lord’s command, gave the Levites these cities with their pasturelands from their inheritance.

The lot came out for the Kohathite clans: The Levites who were the descendants of the priest Aaron received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

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