1 Chronicles 6:54 Cross References - CLV

⁵⁴ And these [are] their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for theirs was the lot;"

¹⁶ These, they are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their environs and in their domiciles--twelve princes for their clans.

¹⁰ All their walled cities with their dwellings and all their nomadic domiciles they burned with fire.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab along the Jordan across from Jericho, saying. ² Instruct the sons of Israel so that they give to the Levites, from the allotment of their holding, cities to dwell in; and by the cities, common pasture land around them shall you give to the Levites. ³ The cities will be theirs to dwell in, and their common lands shall be for their domestic beasts, for their goods and for all their animals. ⁴ The common lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites will extend from the sidewall of the city outward a thousand cubits round about. ⁵ You will measure off outside the city on the eastward edge two thousand cubits, on the southward edge two thousand cubits, on the western edge two thousand cubits and on the northern edge two thousand cubits with the city in the middle. This shall be their common lands for the cities. ⁶ And of the cities which you shall give to the Levites six will be asylum cities which you shall give for the manslayer to flee there. And along with them you shall give forty-two other cities. ⁷ All the cities which you shall give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, these and their common pasture lands. ⁸ And the cities which you shall give will be from the holding of the sons of Israel:from the numerous one you shall increase and from the little one you shall decrease; each tribe according to the bidding of its allotment which they are allotting shall give from its cities to the Levites.

³ And the sons of Israel give to the Levites, out of their inheritance, at the command of Yahweh, these cities and their suburbs. ⁴ And the lot goes out for the families of the Kohathite, and there are for the sons of Aaron the priest (of the Levites), out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, by lot thirteen cities, ⁵ and for the sons of Kohath who are left, out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, by lot ten cities. ⁶ And for the sons of Gershon [are], 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, by lot, thirteen cities. ⁷ For the sons of Merari, for their families, [are], out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. ⁸ And the sons of Israel give to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses, by lot.

¹⁰ and they are for the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathite, of the sons of Levi, for theirs has been the first lot;"