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Joshua 21:35
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Dimnah with its pasturelands, and Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities.
Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah and its pasturelands, and Nahalal and its pasturelands; four cities.
Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities;
Dimnah, and Nahalal, and the pastures around these four towns.
Dimnah, and Nahalal, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities;
Dimnah with its pasture lands and Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Dimnah with her suburbes, Nahalal, with her suburbes: foure cities.
Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Dimnah with its surrounding open land and Nahalal with its surrounding open land — four cities. {Out of the tribe of Re'uven: Betzer with its surrounding open land, Yachtzah with its surrounding open land, K'demot with its surrounding open land and Mefa‘at with its surrounding open land — four cities.}*
Dimnah and its suburbs, Nahalal and its suburbs: four cities;
And Ahshemoth with its suburbs, four cities with their suburbs.
Dimnah, and Nahalal, with their pasture lands.
Dimnah and its open lands, Nahalal and its open lands; four cities.
Dimna and Nahalal wt ye suburbes therof.
Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.
Dimnah with her suburbes, and Nahalal with her suburbes, foure cities.
Dimnah with the open land about it, Nahalal with the open land about it; four cities.
Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs, foure cities.
and Sella and its suburbs: three cities.
Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah, and Nahalal-four cities, along with their pasturelands.
and Demna, and Nalol; `foure citees, with her subarbis.
Dimnah and its suburbs, Nahalal and its suburbs -- four cities.
Rimmonah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
Dimnah with its common-land, and Nahalal with its common-land: four cities;
Dimnah, and Nahalal—four towns.
Dimnah with its fields, and Nahalal with its fields, four cities.
Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands—four towns.
Dimnah, with her pasture land, Nahalal, with her pasture land, - four cities.
And Damna and Naalol, four cities with their suburbs.
Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Dimnah: This and the following verse are wholly omitted by the Masora, and many Hebrew Bibles which are esteemed very highly; though, without them, neither the twelve cities of the Merarites in particular - Joshua 21:40, nor the forty-eight Levitical cities in general - Joshua 21:41, nor the six cities of refuge, can be made up. But these two verses, are thus absolutely necessary for the truth and consistency of this chapter, are happily preserved in no less than 149 manuscripts collated by Dr. Kennicott, and upwards of 40 collated by De Rossi. Joshua 21:35
Reciprocal: Joshua 19:15 - Kattath 1 Chronicles 6:77 - Rimmon
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Dimnah with her suburbs,.... Nowhere mentioned, unless the same with Rimmon, 1 Chronicles 6:77;
Nahalal with her suburbs; see Joshua 19:15;
four cities; only two are mentioned, 1 Chronicles 6:77; and they by different names; the one is Rimmon, before observed, and the other Tabor; perhaps the same with Chislothtabor, Joshua 19:12.
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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 21:35. Dimnah with her suburbs, c. — It is well known to every Hebrew scholar that the two following verses are wholly omitted by the Masora and are left out in some of the most correct and authentic Hebrew Bibles. Between critics there is no small controversy relative to the authenticity of these verses; and those who wish to see the arguments at large on both sides, must consult the Variae Lectiones of De Rossi on this place. Dr. Kennicott, who is a strenuous advocate for their authenticity argues thus in their behalf: "Verses Joshua 21:41 and Joshua 21:42 of this chapter tell us that the Levitical cities were forty-eight, and that they had been all as such described; so that they must have been all specified in this chapter: whereas now in all the Hebrew copies printed in full obedience to the Masora, which excludes two verses containing four of these cities, the number amounts only to forty-four.
"The cities are first mentioned, in the general, as being thirteen and ten, with thirteen and twelve, which are certainly forty-eight. And yet when they are particularly named, Joshua 21:13-19 gives thirteen cities; Joshua 21:20-26 gives ten cities; Joshua 21:27-33 gives thirteen; Joshua 21:34-36 gives four cities; and Joshua 21:35-36 gives four more, all which can make but forty-four. And what still increases the wonder is, that Joshua 21:40 infers from the verses immediately preceding, that the cities allowed to the Merarites were twelve, though they here make eight only, unless we admit the four other cities expressed in those two verses, which have been rejected by that blind guide the Masora. In defiance of this authority these two verses, thus absolutely necessary, were inserted in the most early editions of the Hebrew text, and are found in Walton's Polyglot, as well as in our English Bible. But they have scarce ever been as yet printed completely, thus, And out of the tribe or Reuben, A CITY OF REFUGE FOR THE SLAYER, Bezer, IN THE WILDERNESS, with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. See on this place my edition of the Hebrew Bible, where no less than one hundred and forty-nine copies are described, which happily preserve these verses, most clearly essential to the truth and consistency of this chapter. See also General Discourse, pp. 19, 26, 54."
Though this reasoning of Dr. Kennicott appears very conclusive, yet there are so many and important variations among the MSS. that retain, and those that reject these verses, as to render the question of their authenticity very difficult to be determined. To Dr. Kennicott's one hundred and forty-nine MSS. which have these two verses, may be added upwards of forty collated by De Rossi. Those who deny their authenticity say they have been inserted here from 1 Chronicles 6:78-79, where they are found it is true, in general, but not exactly as they stand here, and in Dr. Kennicott's Hebrew Bible.
