📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 6:57
What does 1 Chronicles 6:57 mean?
"To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its suburbs,"
— 1 Chronicles 6:57 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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),
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it;
but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
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