◄ Joshua 21:41 {39} ►
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New Revised Standard Version
The towns of the Levites within the holdings of the Israelites were in all forty-eight towns with their pasture lands.

New American Bible
Thus the total number of cities within the territory of the Israelites which, with their pasture lands, belonged to the Levites, was forty-eight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,

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So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,

within

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

Numbers 35:1-8 And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho: . . .

Deuteronomy 33:10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.

23,000 (Nu

36:62); and it is thought by some that forty-eight cities was too great a proportion for this tribe. But it should be considered, that cities in ancient times were little more than villages.

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
…40All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds, were twelve. 41So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,42With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.…
Cross References
Numbers 35:7
That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

Joshua 21:40
All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds, were twelve.

Joshua 21:42
With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.

1 Chronicles 6:64
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

Joshua 21:40
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