Joshua 13
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Now Joshua t was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land u to possess.
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v This is the land that yet remains: all the w regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites
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(from the x Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; y there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of z the Avvim,
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in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of a the Amorites,
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and the land of the b Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from c Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to d Lebo-hamath,
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all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to e Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive f them out from before the people of Israel. Only g allot the land to Israel h for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
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Now therefore i divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh."
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With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, j which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:
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k from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and l all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;
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m and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
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and Gilead, and the n region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and n all Bashan to Salecah;
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n all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of n the remnant of the Rephaim); o these Moses had struck and driven out.
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p Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
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q To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.
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And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans.
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So their territory was from Aroer, r which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by s Medeba;
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with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; s Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
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t and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
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and u Kiriathaim, and u Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,
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and v Beth-peor, and w the slopes of Pisgah, and w Beth-jeshimoth,
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that is, x all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, y whom Moses defeated with z the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
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z Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.
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And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.
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Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans.
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a Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of b Rabbah,
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and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from c Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,
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and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, d Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of e Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
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This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.
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And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.
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Their region extended from f Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all g the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,
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and half Gilead, and h Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of i Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.
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These are the inheritances that Moses distributed j in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.
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k But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, k just as he said to them.
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Joshua 14:10
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Joshua 23:1
A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
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Deuteronomy 31:3
The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken.
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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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Joel 3:4
What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
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1 Chronicles 13:5
So David assembled all Israel from the Nile of Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
Jeremiah 2:18
And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
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Judges 3:3
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
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Deuteronomy 2:23
As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)
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Judges 1:34 - 36
The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.
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1 Kings 5:18
So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
Psalms 83:7
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Ezekiel 27:9
The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares.
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Joshua 11:17
From Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.
Joshua 12:7
And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
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Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.
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Joshua 11:8
And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.
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Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:21 - 23
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
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Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
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Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Numbers 34:2
Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders).
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Joshua 14:1 - 2
These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.
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Joshua 12:6
Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Numbers 32:33
And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
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Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
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Joshua 13:16
So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba.
Numbers 21:30
So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.
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Numbers 21:24 - 25
And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.
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Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
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Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
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Joshua 13:11
And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah.
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Joshua 13:11
And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah.
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Numbers 21:24
And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.
Numbers 21:35
So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land.
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Joshua 13:11
And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah.
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Joshua 14:3 - 4
For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
Numbers 18:20 - 32
And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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Joshua 13:9
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon.
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Numbers 21:30
So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.
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Joshua 13:16
So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba.
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Numbers 21:23
But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
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Numbers 32:37 - 38
And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim.
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Numbers 32:37 - 38
And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim.
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Deuteronomy 4:46
Beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.
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Joshua 12:3
And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
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Joshua 12:3
And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
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Deuteronomy 3:10
All the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
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Numbers 21:24
And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.
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Numbers 31:8
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
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Joshua 13:21
That is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
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Numbers 32:34 - 36
And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer.
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Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
2 Samuel 11:1
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
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Genesis 32:2
And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2:12
Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel 17:24
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
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Genesis 33:17
But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
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Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
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Joshua 13:26
And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.
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Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
1 Chronicles 2:23
But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
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Joshua 12:4
And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei
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Joshua 17:1
Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.
Numbers 32:39 - 40
And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
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Numbers 22:1
Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
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Joshua 13:14
To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.
Joshua 18:7
The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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Joshua 13:14
To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.
Joshua 18:7
The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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