Joshua 21:41

These towns of the Levites within the holdings of the Israelites numbered in all forty-eight, with their pastures.

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In The King James Version

All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

In Context

40All the towns allotted to the Merarite families, the rest of the Levites, numbered twelve.

42Every town had its own pastures round it, every one.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Accursed is their anger that it is so fierce, and their wrath because it is so cruel; I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Joshua 21:3So the Israelites gave the Levites, as the Lord had commanded, the following towns and pasture lands out of their inheritance.

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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