Territories for the Levites
1 Chronicles 6:54
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:
- KJV
- ¶ 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.
- WEB
- Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
- ASV
- Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
- LSV
- And these [are] their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for the lot was theirs;
- YLT
- 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;
- DBY
- And these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments, within their borders. For the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot;
- DRC
- And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.
- GNV
- And these are the dwelling places of them throughout their townes and coastes, euen of the sonnes of Aaron for the familie of the Kohathites, for the lot was theirs.
- JPS6:39
- Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot,
- LXXE6:39
- And these are their residences in their villages, in their coasts, to the sons of Aaron, to their family the Caathites: for they had the lot.
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Original-language editions
- WLC6:39
- וְאֵ֨לֶּה֙ מוֹשְׁבוֹתָ֔ם לְטִירוֹתָ֖ם בִּגְבוּלָ֑ם לִבְנֵ֤י אַהֲרֹן֙ לְמִשְׁפַּחַ֣ת הַקְּהָתִ֔י כִּ֥י לָהֶ֖ם הָיָ֥ה הַגּוֹרָֽל׃KJV:1Chr.6.54
- LXX-Br6:39
- Καὶ αὗται αἱ κατοικίαι αὐτῶν ἐν ταῖς κώμαις αὐτῶν, ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῶν, τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἀαρὼν τῇ πατριᾷ αὐτῶν τοῖς Κααθὶ, ὅτι αὐτοῖς ἐγένετο ὁ κλῆρος.
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- Genesis 25:16These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.
- Numbers 35:1–8Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho: “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around…
- Numbers 31:10Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
- Joshua 21:10to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them:
- Joshua 21:3–8So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance: The first lot came out for the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron…
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 6:39 in some Bibles
- 6:54 in most Bibles