The Levite that is within thy gates. — The distribution of the Levites throughout the several tribes (ordered in Numbers 35:1), and carried out by Joshua (Deuteronomy 21), is here anticipated. The Levites had this provision in Israel until Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, when they migrated to the kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 11:13).

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