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60 From the tribe of Benjamin were allotted[a] Geba with its surrounding suburbs, Alemeth with its surrounding suburbs, and Anathoth with its surrounding suburbs. All their towns allotted to their families totaled thirteen.

61 Ten towns were allocated to the rest of the descendants of Kohath by lot out of the family of the tribe, that is, the half-tribe of Manasseh. 62 To the descendants of Gershom according to their families were allotted 13 towns in Bashan from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 6:60 The Heb. lacks were allotted; and so throughout the chapter

60 And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon,[a] Geba, Alemeth and Anathoth,(A) together with their pasturelands.

The total number of towns distributed among the Kohathite clans came to thirteen.

61 The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of half the tribe of Manasseh.

62 The descendants of Gershon, clan by clan, were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher and Naphtali, and from the part of the tribe of Manasseh that is in Bashan.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 6:60 See Joshua 21:17; Hebrew does not have Gibeon.