Joshua 21:37

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities.

Hebrew Names Version
Kedemot with its suburbs, and Mefa`at with its suburbs; four cities.

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

Lexham English Bible
Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands; four cities.

English Standard Version
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;

New Century Version
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the pastures around these four towns.

New English Translation
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities;

Amplified Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

New American Standard Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Kedemoth with her suburbes, and Mephaath with her suburbes: foure cities.

Legacy Standard Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

Complete Jewish Bible
Heshbon with its surrounding open land and Ya‘zer with its surrounding open land — four cities in all.

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

George Lamsa Translation
Ramin with its suburbs, and Jahlah with its suburbs, four cities with their suburbs.

Good News Translation
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, with their pasture lands.

Literal Translation
Kedemoth and its open lands, and Mephaath and its open lands; four cities.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kedemoth and Mephaat with their suburbes.

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

Bible in Basic English
Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kedmoth with her suburbes, and Mephaath with her suburbes, foure cities.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in all.

King James Version (1611)
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs, foure cities.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And out of the tribe of Gad the city of refuge for the slayer, both Ramoth in Galaad, and its suburbs; Camin and its suburbs; and Esbon and its suburbs; and Jazer and its suburbs: the cities were four in all.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Kedemoth, and Mephaath-four cities, along with their pasturelands.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And of the lynage of Ruben, biyende Jordan, ayens Jerico, he yaf `the citee of refuyt,

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

Update Bible Version
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its 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.

New King James Version
Kedemoth with its common-land, and Mephaath with its common-land: four cities; 1 Chronicles 6:78, 79); Masoretic Text, Bomberg, and Targum omit Joshua 21:36, 37.">[fn]

New Living Translation
Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four towns.

New Life Bible
Kedemoth with its fields, and Mephaath with its fields, four cities.

New Revised Standard
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands—four towns.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Kedemoth, with her pasture land and Mephaath, with her pasture land, - four cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-36) and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.

Revised Standard Version
Ked'emoth with its pasture lands, and Meph'a-ath with its pasture lands--four cities;

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

Contextual Overview

⁹They assigned from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin the following towns, here named individually (these were for the descendants of Aaron who were from the families of the Kohathite branch of Levi because the first lot fell to them): ¹¹Kiriath Arba (Arba was the ancestor of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hills of Judah, with access to the pastures around it. The fields of the city and its open lands they had already given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession. ¹³To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (the asylum-city for the unconvicted killers), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa, Holon, Debir, Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, all with their accompanying pastures—nine towns from these two tribes. ¹⁷And from the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon, Geba, Anathoth, and Almon, together with their pastures—four towns. ¹⁹ The total for the cities and pastures for the priests descended from Aaron came to thirteen. ²⁰The rest of the Kohathite families from the tribe of Levi were assigned their cities by lot from the tribe of Ephraim: Shechem (the asylum-city for the unconvicted killer) in the hills of Ephraim, Gezer, Kibzaim, and Beth Horon, with their pastures—four towns. ²³From the tribe of Dan they received Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Aijalon, and Gath Rimmon, all with their pastures—four towns. ²⁵ And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they received Taanach and Gath Rimmon with their pastures—two towns. ²⁶ All told, ten cities with their pastures went to the remaining Kohathite families. ²⁷ The Gershonite families of the tribe of Levi were given from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (an asylum-city for the unconvicted killer), and Be Eshtarah, with their pastures—two cities.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:26 - Kedemoth Joshua 13:18 - Jahaza 1 Chronicles 6:78 - Jahzah Jeremiah 48:21 - Jahazah

Gill's Notes on the 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 Deuteronomy 2:26- :; 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Merarite cities. Some of these places are not found in the list of Zebulonite cities in Joshua 19:10-16. The text is considered corrupt.