Joshua 21:42

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

41These towns of the Levites within the holdings of the Israelites numbered in all forty-eight, with their pastures.

43In this way the Lord gave to Israel all the land he had sworn to give to their ancestors. They occupied it and settled 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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