40So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 9-42)We have here a particular account of the cities which were given to the children of Levi out of the several tribes, not only to be occupied and inhabited by them, as tenants to the several tribes in which they lay—no, their interest in them was not dependent and precarious, but to be owned and possessed by them as lords and proprietors, and as having the same title to them that the rest of the tri...
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