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New Living Translation

Joshua 21:33

So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were allotted to the clan of Gershon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All thirteen cities with their pasturelands were for the Gershonites by their clans.
Hebrew Names Version
All the cities of the Gershoni according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
King James Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Lexham English Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their pasturelands.
English Standard Version
The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.
New Century Version
So the Gershonite family groups received thirteen towns and the pastures around them.
New English Translation
The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.
Amplified Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Al the cities of the Gershonites according to their families, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the cities of the Gershuni according to their families were thirteen cities with their surrounding open land.
Darby Translation
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Easy-to-Read Version
In all, the Gershon family groups got 13 towns and some land around each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
All the cities of the families of the Gershonites were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
The various families of the clan of Gershon received a total of thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their open land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that all the cities of the kynred of the Gersonites were thirtene wt their suburbes.
American Standard Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Bible in Basic English
All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the cities of ye Gersonites throughout their kynredes, were thirteene cities with their suburbes,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
King James Version (1611)
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the cities of Gedson according to their families were thirteen cities.
English Revised Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Berean Standard Bible
Altogether thirteen cities with their pasturelands were given to the Gershonite clans.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle the citees of the meynees of Gerson weren threttene, with her subarbis.
Young's Literal Translation
all the cities of the Gershonite, for their families, [are] thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Update Bible Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their families, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
World English Bible
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
New King James Version
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
New Life Bible
The cities for the families of the Gershonites were thirteen in all, with their fields.
New Revised Standard
The towns of the several families of the Gershonites were in all thirteen, with their pasture lands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All, the cities of the Gershonites, by their families, were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities of the families of Gerson, were thirteen, with their suburbs.
Revised Standard Version
The cities of the several families of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
THE MESSAGE
For the Gershonites and their families: thirteen towns with their pastures.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families 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

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to worship the Lord by name.
Genesis 12:8
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 26:23
From there Isaac moved to Beersheba,
Genesis 26:25
Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord . He set up his camp at that place, and his servants dug another well.
Genesis 26:33
So Isaac named the well Shibah (which means "oath"). And to this day the town that grew up there is called Beersheba (which means "well of the oath").
Deuteronomy 16:21
"You must never set up a wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build for the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge, and his everlasting arms are under you. He drives out the enemy before you; he cries out, ‘Destroy them!'
Judges 3:7
The Israelites did evil in the Lord 's sight. They forgot about the Lord their God, and they served the images of Baal and the Asherah poles.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.
Isaiah 40:28
Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their families,.... Which were divided among them, according to the number of their families:

[were] thirteen cities with their suburbs; two out of the half tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan, four out of Issachar, four out of Asher, and three out of Naphtali.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 19:18, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og Joshua 12:4; Deu 1:4; 1 Chronicles 6:71.


 
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