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Contemporary English Version

Joshua 21:26

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kohath;   Levi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ta'nach,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All ten cities with their pasturelands were for the clans of Kohath’s other descendants.
Hebrew Names Version
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kehat were ten with their suburbs.
King James Version
All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Lexham English Bible
All the cities and their pasturelands for the remaining families of the descendants of Kohath were ten.
English Standard Version
The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands.
New Century Version
So these ten towns and the pastures around them were given to the rest of the Kohathite family groups.
New English Translation
The rest of the Kohathite clans received ten cities and their grazing areas.
Amplified Bible
All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath totaled ten.
New American Standard Bible
All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the cities for the other families of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbes.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the cities of the families of the rest of the descendants of K'hat numbered ten with their surrounding open land.
Darby Translation
All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Easy-to-Read Version
In all, the rest of the people from the Kohath family groups got ten towns and some land around each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
All the towns and the cities were ten with their suburbs which went for the remaining families of the Kohathites.
Good News Translation
These families of the clan of Kohath received ten cities in all, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
All the cities were ten, and their open land, for the families of the sons of Kohath that were left.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that all the cities of the other children of ye kynred of Kahath, were ten with their suburbes.
American Standard Version
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
Bible in Basic English
All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the cities for the other kynredes of the children of Caath, were ten, with their suburbes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with the open land about them.
King James Version (1611)
All the cities were ten with their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In all were given ten cities, and the suburbs of each belonging to them, to the families of the sons of Caath that remained.
English Revised Version
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
Berean Standard Bible
Altogether ten cities with their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle the citees ten, and the subarbis `of tho weren youun to the sones of Caath, of the lowere degree.
Young's Literal Translation
all the cities [are] ten and their suburbs, for the families of the sons of Kohath who are left.
Update Bible Version
All the cities of the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
World English Bible
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
New King James Version
All the ten cities with their common-lands were for the rest of the families of the children of Kohath.
New Living Translation
So in all, ten towns with their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clan.
New Life Bible
There were ten cities in all, with their fields, for the rest of the families of the Kohathites.
New Revised Standard
The towns of the families of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all, with their pasture lands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the cities, were ten, with their pasture lands: for the families of the sons of Kohath which remained.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities were ten, with their suburbs, which were given to the children of Caath, of the inferior degree.
Revised Standard Version
The cities of the families of the rest of the Ko'hathites were ten in all with their pasture lands.
THE MESSAGE
All told, ten cities with their pastures went to the remaining Kohathite families.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.

Contextual Overview

9Towns from Judah, Simeon, Benjamin The descendants of Aaron from the Kohath clans of Levi were priests, and they were chosen to receive towns first. They were given thirteen towns and the pastureland around them. Nine of these towns were from the tribes of Judah and Simeon and four from Benjamin. Hebron, Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa, Holon, Debir, Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-Shemesh were from Judah and Simeon. Hebron, located in the hill country of Judah, was earlier called Arba's Town. It had been named after Arba, the ancestor of the Anakim. Hebron's pasturelands went along with the town, but its farmlands and the villages around it had been given to Caleb. Hebron was also one of the Safe Towns for people who had accidentally killed someone. Gibeon, Geba, Anathoth, and Almon were from Benjamin. 20Towns from Ephraim, Dan, West Manasseh The rest of the Kohath clans of the Levi tribe received ten towns and the pastureland around them. Four of these towns were from the tribe of Ephraim, four from Dan, and two from West Manasseh. Shechem, Gezer, Kibzaim, and Beth-Horon were from Ephraim. Shechem was located in the hill country, and it was also one of the Safe Towns for people who had accidentally killed someone. Elteke, Gibbethon, Aijalon, and Gath-Rimmon were from Dan. Taanach and Jibleam were from West Manasseh. 27Towns from East Manasseh, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali The clans of Levi that were descendants of Gershon received thirteen towns and the pastureland around them. Two of these towns were from the tribe of East Manasseh, four from Issachar, four from Asher, and three from Naphtali. Golan in Bashan and Beeshterah were from East Manasseh. Kishion, Daberath, Jarmuth, and En-Gannim were from Issachar. Mishal, Abdon, Helkath, and Rehob were from Asher. Kedesh in Galilee, Hammothdor, and Kartan were from Naphtali. Golan in Bashan and Kedesh in Galilee were also Safe Towns for people who had accidentally killed someone. 34Towns from Zebulun, Reuben, Gad The rest of the Levi clans were descendants of Merari, and they received twelve towns with the pastureland around them. Four towns were from the tribe of Zebulun, four from Reuben, and four from Gad. Jokneam, Kartah, Rimmonah, and Nahalal were from Zebulun. Bezer, Jazah, Kedemoth, and Mephaath were from Reuben. Bezer was located in the desert flatlands east of the Jordan River across from Jericho. Ramoth in Gilead, Mahanaim, Heshbon, and Jazer were from Gad. Bezer and Ramoth in Gilead were Safe Towns for people who had accidentally killed someone. 41The people of the Levi tribe had a total of forty-eight towns within Israel, and they had pastures around each one of their towns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:61 - ten cities

Cross-References

Genesis 21:20
God blessed Ishmael, and as the boy grew older, he became an expert with his bow and arrows. He lived in the Paran Desert, and his mother chose an Egyptian woman for him to marry.
Genesis 21:24
And so, Abraham promised.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the cities [were] ten, with their suburbs,.... Four out of Ephraim, four out of Dan, and two out of the half tribe of Manasseh: which were

for the families of the children of Kohath that remained: who were of the other branch of the Kohathites, and who did not descend from Aaron, and were only Levites, and not priests; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of the cities of the non-priestly Kohathites, for Kibzaim we find Jokmeam in 1 Chronicles 6:68. This is perhaps another name for the same place, since both names may be derived from roots having a similar meaning; and for Gath-rimmon in 1 Chronicles 6:70, Bileam is given, and probably correctly; Gath-rimmon having apparently been repeated inadvertently from the preceding verse. Bileam is but another form of Ibleam Joshua 17:11.


 
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