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Complete Jewish Bible

Joshua 21:19

All the cities of the descendants of Aharon, the cohanim, numbered thirteen cities with their surrounding open land.

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.
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 Living Translation
So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
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 They gave from the tribe of the descendants of Y'hudah and from the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on these cities here mentioned by name; 10 they were for the descendants of Aharon, of the families of the K'hati, who were among the descendants of Levi; because theirs was the first lot. 11 They gave them: Kiryat-Arba — this Arba was the father of ‘Anak — (that is, Hevron), in the hills of Y'hudah, with the surrounding open land; 12 but the fields and villages of the city they gave to Kalev the son of Y'funeh as his possession. 13 Thus to the descendants of Aharon the cohen they gave: Hevron with its surrounding open land, already a city of refuge for the killer; Livnah with its surrounding open land; 14 Yatir with its surrounding open land; Esht'moa with its surrounding open land; 15 Holon with its surrounding open land; D'vir with its surrounding open land; 16 ‘Ayin with its surrounding open land, Yutah with its surrounding open land and Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land — nine cities out of these two tribes. 17 Out of the tribe of Binyamin: Giv‘on with its surrounding open land, Geva with its surrounding open land, 18 ‘Anatot with its surrounding open land and ‘Almon with its surrounding open land — four cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 32:7 - Anathoth

Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
(v) Avraham was one hundred years old when his son Yitz'chak [laughter] was born to him.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has given me good reason to laugh; now everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:16
and went and sat down, looking the other way, about a bow-shot's distance from him; because she said, "I can't bear to watch my child die." So she sat there, looking the other way, crying out and weeping.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the boy in his present situation.
Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
Genesis 21:31
This is why that place was called Be'er-Sheva [well of seven, well of an oath] — because they both swore an oath there.
Numbers 22:31
Then Adonai opened Bil‘am's eyes, so that he could see the angel of Adonai standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand, and he bowed his head and fell on his face.

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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