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New Living Translation

Joshua 21:19

So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judah;   Levi;   Priest;   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 - Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Levites;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All thirteen cities with their pasturelands were for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Hebrew Names Version
All the cities of the children of Aharon, the Kohanim, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
King James Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Lexham English Bible
All the cities of the descendants of Aaron the priests, thirteen cities and their pasturelands.
English Standard Version
The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.
New Century Version
So these thirteen towns with their pastures were given to the priests, who were from the family of Aaron.
New English Translation
The priests descended from Aaron received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.
Amplified Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the cities of the children of Aaron Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the cities of the descendants of Aharon, the cohanim, numbered thirteen cities with their surrounding open land.
Darby Translation
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Easy-to-Read Version
In all, they gave 13 towns to the priests. (All priests were descendants of Aaron.) They also gave them some land near each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
Thirteen cities in all, with their pasture lands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Literal Translation
And all the cities of the sons of Aaron the priest were thirteen cities and their open land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that all the cities of the children of Aaron the prest were thirtene with their suburbes.
American Standard Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Bible in Basic English
Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these cities of the children of Aaron priestes, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
King James Version (1611)
All the cities of the children of Aaron the Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, thirteen.
English Revised Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Berean Standard Bible
Altogether thirteen cities with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle the citees togidere of the sones of Aaron, preest, weren threttene, with her subarbis.
Young's Literal Translation
all the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, [are] thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Update Bible Version
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
World English Bible
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
New King James Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
New Life Bible
For the sons of Aaron, the religious leaders, there were thirteen cities in all, with their fields.
New Revised Standard
The towns of the descendants of Aaron—the priests—were thirteen in all, with their pasture lands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs,
Revised Standard Version
The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
THE MESSAGE
The total for the cities and pastures for the priests descended from Aaron came to thirteen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

Contextual Overview

9 The Israelites gave the following towns from the tribes of Judah and Simeon 10 to the descendants of Aaron, who were members of the Kohathite clan within the tribe of Levi, since the sacred lot fell to them first: 11 Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasturelands. (Arba was an ancestor of Anak.) 12 But the open fields beyond the town and the surrounding villages were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession. 13 The following towns with their pasturelands were given to the descendants of Aaron the priest: Hebron (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Libnah, 14 Jattir, Eshtemoa, 15 Holon, Debir, 16 Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine towns from these two tribes. 17 From the tribe of Benjamin the priests were given the following towns with their pasturelands: Gibeon, Geba, 18 Anathoth, and Almon—four towns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 32:7 - Anathoth

Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah declared, "God has brought me laughter. All who hear about this will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:16
Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. "I don't want to watch the boy die," she said, as she burst into tears.
Genesis 21:17
But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "Hagar, what's wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. He became a skillful archer,
Genesis 21:31
Then he named the place Beersheba (which means "well of the oath"), because that was where they had sworn the oath.
Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the roadway with a drawn sword in his hand. Balaam bowed his head and fell face down on the ground before him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,.... Those of the Kohathites that came from him:

[were] thirteen cities with their suburbs; and just so many are mentioned by name in Joshua 21:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 21:19. Thirteen cities with their suburbs. — At the time mentioned here certainly thirteen cities were too large a proportion for the priests, as they and their families amounted to a very small number: but this ample provision was made in reference to their great increase in after times, when they formed twenty-four courses, as in the days of David.


 
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