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Joshua 21:8

The sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Israelites gave these cities with their pasturelands around them to the Levites by lot, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by Moshe.
King James Version
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
Lexham English Bible
The Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pastureland by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses.
English Standard Version
These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
New Century Version
So the Israelites gave the Levites these towns and the pastures around them, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
New English Translation
So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.
New American Standard Bible
Now the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbes, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord had told Moses that he would show the Israelites which towns and pastures to give to the clans of Levi, and he did.
Complete Jewish Bible
The people of Isra'el gave by lot to the L'vi'im these cities with the surrounding open land, as Adonai had ordered through Moshe.
Darby Translation
And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded through Moses.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the Israelites gave the Levites these towns and the fields around them, just as the Lord had told Moses.
George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Good News Translation
By drawing lots, the people of Israel assigned these cities and their pasture lands to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their open land, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So the children of Israel gaue these cities and their suburbes vnto the Leuites by lott, as the LORDE commaunded by Moses.
American Standard Version
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by Moses.
Bible in Basic English
All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbes, as the Lord commaunded by the hand of Moyses.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with the open land about them, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
King James Version (1611)
And the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded Moses, by lot.
English Revised Version
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Berean Standard Bible
So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these cities along with their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel yauen to dekenes cytees, and the subarbis `of tho, as the Lord comaundide bi the hond of Moises; and alle yauen bi lot.
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel give to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, by lot.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
World English Bible
The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
New King James Version
And the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses.
New Living Translation
So the Israelites obeyed the Lord 's command to Moses and assigned these towns and pasturelands to the Levites by casting sacred lots.
New Life Bible
The sons of Israel by drawing names gave these cities with their fields to the Levites, as the Lord had said through Moses.
New Revised Standard
These towns and their pasture lands the Israelites gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the sons of Israel gave unto the Levites these cities, with their pasture lands, - as Yahweh commanded, by the hand of Moses, by lot.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, giving to every one by lot.
Revised Standard Version
These cities and their pasture lands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
THE MESSAGE
So the People of Israel gave these cities with their pastures to the Levites just as God had ordered through Moses, that is, by lot.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Contextual Overview

1Then the heads of the households of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the households of the tribes of the sons of Israel. 2They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle." 3So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these [forty-eight] cities and their pasture lands, in accordance with the command of the LORD. 4The [first] lot (allotment) came out for the families of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were sons (descendants) of Aaron the priest received thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of Simeon and from the tribe of Benjamin. 5The rest of the sons of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh. 6The sons of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. 7The sons of Merari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun. 8The sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by lot: Joshua 21:3, Joshua 18:6, Numbers 33:54, Numbers 35:3, Proverbs 16:33, Proverbs 18:18

as the Lord: Numbers 32:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 21:4 - the children

Cross-References

Genesis 19:3
However, Lot strongly urged them, so they turned aside and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them [with wine], and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 26:30
Then Isaac held a [formal] banquet (covenant feast) for them, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 29:22
So Laban gathered together all the men of the place and prepared a [wedding] feast [with wine].
Genesis 40:20
Now on the third day, [which was] the Pharaoh's birthday, he [released the two men from prison and] made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker [that is, presented them in public] among his servants.
Judges 14:10
His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for that was the customary thing for young men to do.
Judges 14:12
Then Samson said to them, "Let me now ask you a riddle; if you can tell me what it is within the seven days of the feast, and solve it, then I will give you thirty linen tunics (undergarments) and thirty changes of [outer] clothing.
1 Samuel 1:22
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "I will not go up until the child is weaned; and then I will bring him, so that he may appear before the LORD and remain there as long as he lives."
1 Samuel 25:36
Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal's mood was joyous because he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
2 Samuel 3:20
So Abner came to David at Hebron, and [brought] twenty men along with him. And David prepared a feast for Abner and the men with him.
1 Kings 3:15
Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that it was a dream. He came [back] to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he prepared a feast for all his servants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs,.... Reaching two thousand cubits from the cities all around: these cities did not lie all together, and so could not be described by their coasts; but in the several tribes, and intermixed with their cities; which fulfilled Jacob's prophecy, that they should be divided and scattered in Israel, Genesis 49:7; as well as it was so ordered for the benefit of the several tribes, that they might have the assistance of the priests and Levites, to instruct them in the knowledge of the laws and commandments of God, and all divine things:

as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses; Numbers 35:2.


 
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