1 Chronicles 6:67 meaning and explanation

They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,

1 Chronicles 6:67, Berean Standard Bible

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This verse falls within the list of towns assigned to the Kohathite clans of Levi, who received no tribal inheritance of their own but were given cities among the other tribes. Shechem lay in the hill country of Ephraim and was designated a city of refuge, one of the places where someone who had killed another person unintentionally could flee for protection until a fair hearing.

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