Joshua 21:10
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To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of Levi (for the first lot came out for them)

Joshua 21:4 And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

Exodus 6:18,20-26 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron and Oziel. And the years of Caath's life, were a hundred and thirty-three. . . .

Numbers 3:2-4,19,27 And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar. . . .

Numbers 4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by their houses and families.

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
9Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Joshua gave cities: whose names are these, 10To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of Levi (for the first lot came out for them)11The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.…
Cross References
Numbers 3:27
Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names:

Joshua 21:9
Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Joshua gave cities: whose names are these,

Joshua 21:11
The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.

1 Chronicles 6:54
And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.

Lexicon
to the descendants
לִבְנֵ֣י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

of Aaron
אַהֲרֹ֔ן (’a·hă·rōn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 175: Aaron -- an elder brother of Moses

from the Kohathite
הַקְּהָתִ֖י (haq·qə·hā·ṯî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6956: Kohathites -- descendant of Kohath

clans
מִמִּשְׁפְּח֥וֹת (mim·miš·pə·ḥō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

of the Levites,
מִבְּנֵ֣י (mib·bə·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

because
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

the first
רִיאשֹׁנָֽה׃ (rî·šō·nāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7223: First, in place, time, rank

lot
הַגּוֹרָ֖ל (hag·gō·w·rāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1486: Lot -- a lot (for casting)

fell
הָיָ֥ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to them:
לָהֶ֛ם (lā·hem)
Preposition-l | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They


Additional Translations
to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them:Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

to the sons of Aaron of the family of Caath of the sons of Levi, for the lot fell to these.

and which the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi had (for theirs was the first lot);

and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi: for theirs was the first lot.

Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

and they are for the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathite, of the sons of Levi, for theirs hath been the first lot;
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