Joshua 21:40

All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns.

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So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

In Context

39Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

41All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

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Matthew Henry on Joshua 21:10-43

9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name, 10 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. 11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to… Read the whole commentary →

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