Joshua 21:40
 Joshua 21:40 
New International Version (©2011)
The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So in all, twelve towns were allotted to the clan of Merari.

English Standard Version (©2001)
As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All 12 cities were allotted to the clans of Merari's descendants, the remaining Levite clans.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the entire allocation to the descendants of Merari (that is, the rest of the families of the descendants of Levi) according to their families totaled twelve cities.

NET Bible (©2006)
The Merarite clans (the remaining Levites) were allotted twelve cities.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All these cities belonged to the families of Merari. They were the last of the families of Levi. These 12 cities were chosen by lot.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, who were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

American King James Version
So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

American Standard Version
All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds, were twelve.

Darby Bible Translation
These were all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.

English Revised Version
All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

Webster's Bible Translation
So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

World English Bible
All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.

Young's Literal Translation
All the cities for the sons of Merari, for their families, who are left of the families of the Levites -- their lot is twelve cities.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families,.... Which were distributed by lot to them, according to the number of their families, and were sufficient for them:

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

They received twelve towns in all. - In Joshua 21:41 and Joshua 21:42 the list of the Levitical towns is closed with a statement of their total number, and also with the repetition of the remark that "these cities were every one with their suburbs round about them." ום עיר עיר, city city, i.e., every city, with its pasture round about it.


Geneva Study Bible

So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.


Joshua 21:40 Parallel Commentaries
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Forty-Eight Cities of the Levites
39Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all. 40So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities. 41All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs. …

Joshua 21:39 Heshbon and Jazer, together with their pasturelands--four towns in all.
Joshua 21:41 The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands.