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Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites

Joshua 21:42

In 11 translations

BSB
Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.
KJV
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
WEB
Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.
ASV
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
LSV
These cities are each city and its outskirts around it; so to all these cities.
YLT
These cities are each city and its suburbs round about it; so to all these cities.
DBY
Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it: thus were all these cities.
DRC21:40
With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.
GNV
These cities lay euery one seuerallie with their suburbes round about them: so were all these cities.
JPS
even these cities, every one with the open land round about it; thus it shall be with all these cities.
LXXE
and their suburbs round about these cities: a city and the suburbs round about the city to all these cities: and Joshua ceased dividing the land by their borders: and the children of Israel gave a portion to Joshua because of the commandment of the Lord: they gave him the city which he asked: they gave him Thamnasachar in mount Ephraim; and Joshua built the city, and dwelt in it: and Joshua took the knives of stone, wherewith he circumcised the children of Israel that were born in the desert by the way, and put them in Thamnasachar.

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Original-language editions

WLC
תִּֽהְיֶ֨ינָה֙ הֶעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה עִ֣יר עִ֔יר וּמִגְרָשֶׁ֖יהָ סְבִיבֹתֶ֑יהָ כֵּ֖ן לְכָל־הֶעָרִ֥ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃
LXX-Br
κύκλῳ τῶν πόλεων τούτων· πόλις καὶ τὰ περισπόρια κύκλῳ τῆς πόλεως πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσι ταύταις· καὶ συνετέλεσεν Ἰησοῦς διαμερίσας τὴν γῆν ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῶν· καὶ ἔδωκαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ μερίδα τῷ Ἰησοῖ διὰ πρόσταγμα Κυρίου· ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ τὴν πόλιν, ἣν ᾐτήσατο· τὴν Θαμνασαχὰρ ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ ὄρει Ἐφραίμ· καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν Ἰησοῦς τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ᾤκησεν ἐν αὐτῇ· καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἰησοῦς τὰς μαχαίρας τὰς πετρίνας, ἐν αἷς περιέτεμε τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ τοὺς γενομένους ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, καὶ ἔθηκεν αὐτὰς ἐν Θαμνασαχάρ.

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  • 21:40 in some Bibles
  • 21:42 in most Bibles

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