Joshua 21:19

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their open spaces.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

In Context

18'Anathoth with its open spaces, and 'Almon with its open spaces: four cities.

20And the families of the children of Kehath, the Levites, who remained of the children of Kehath, obtained the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:57(6:42) And to the sons of Aaron they gave [of] the cities of refuge Hebron, and Libnah with its open spaces, and Jattir, and Eshthemoa, with its open spaces.

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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