Joshua 21:37
 Joshua 21:37 
New International Version (©2011)
Kedemoth and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands--four towns;

New Living Translation (©2007)
Kedemoth, and Mephaath--four towns.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands--four cities.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands, for a total of four cities.

NET Bible (©2006)
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the grazing areas of each--a total of four cities;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Kedemoth, and Mephaath.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

American King James Version
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

American Standard Version
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.

Darby Bible Translation
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs: four cities;

English Revised Version
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

Webster's Bible Translation
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

World English Bible
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

Young's Literal Translation
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs -- four cities.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:9-42 By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see that the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every tribe had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel more diffused amongst us.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see Deuteronomy 2:26,

and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which See Gill on Joshua 13:18; where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:

four cities, Joshua 21:35, are not in some ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, as is noted by the Masorites; but are in some others, as Kimchi owns, and stand in the Targum, in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and in a manuscript referred to by Hottinger (e); and the same words are to be, found in 1 Chronicles 6:78, and are absolutely necessary to be retained, since without them there would be but eight cities for the Merarites, whereas they are expressly said to be twelve, Joshua 21:40.

(e) Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181, &c.


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Forty-Eight Cities of the Levites
36And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, 37Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. 38And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs, …

Joshua 21:36 from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer, Jahaz,
Joshua 21:38 from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim,