Joshua 21:42

These cities are each city and its outskirts around it; so to all these cities.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

In Context

41All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel [are] forty-eight cities, and their outskirts.

43And YHWH gives to Israel the whole of the land which He has sworn to give to their fathers, and they possess it, and dwell in it;

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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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