6:48 Their i brethren also the Levites [were] k appointed
unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house
of God.
(i) The Levites are called the singers brothers because
they came from the same stock.
(k) Read (Nu 4:4).
6:54 Now these [are] their l dwelling places throughout their
castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the
families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the m lot.
(l) Or, cities which were given to the Levites.
(m) They were first appointed, and prepared for.
6:55 And they gave them n Hebron in the land of Judah, and the
suburbs thereof round about it.
6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah,
[namely], Hebron, [the city] of o refuge, and Libnah with
her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
(o) That he that had killed a man might flee to it for help
till his case was tried, (De 19:2).
6:58 And p Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
6:60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs,
and q Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her
suburbs. All their cities throughout their families [were]
thirteen cities.
6:61 And unto the sons of r Kohath, [which were] left of the
family of that tribe, [were cities given] out of the half
tribe, [namely, out of] the half [tribe] of Manasseh, by
lot, ten cities.
(r) That is, they gave a portion to the Kohathites, who
were the remnant of the tribe of Levi, out of the half
tribe of Manasseh and out of Ephraim, (1Ch 6:66).
6:71 Unto the sons of s Gershom [were given] out of the family
of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her
suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
(s) Who in the first verse is also called Gershon.