Joshua 21:40 meaning and explanation
In all, twelve cities were allotted to the clans of Merari, the remaining Levite clans.
Joshua 21:40, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse closes the list of towns given to the Merarite clan, the last of the three main Levite families. The Levites had no tribal territory of their own, so the other tribes set aside cities and pasturelands for them, as Numbers 35 had directed.
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