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Green's Literal Translation

Joshua 21:33

All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their open land.

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.
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 Living Translation
So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were allotted to the clan of Gershon.
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 And they gave out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name, 10 which the sons of Aaron had, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the sons of Levi. For theirs was the first lot. 11 And they gave them the City of Arba, the father of Anak (which is Hebron) in the hills of Judah, with its open lands around it. 12 But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his own. 13 So they gave Hebron and its open lands to the sons of Aaron the priest as a city of refuge for the slayer, and Libnah and its open lands, 14 and Jattir and its open lands, and Eshtemoa and its open lands, 15 and Holon and its open lands, and Debir and its open lands, 16 and Ain and its open lands, and Juttah and its open lands, and Beth-shemesh and its open lands; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its open lands, Geba and its open lands, 18 Anathoth and its open lands, and Almon and its open lands; four cities.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
And a son was also born to Seth, and he called his name, Enos. Then it was begun to call on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 12:8
And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 26:23
And he went from there to Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:25
And he built an altar there and called on the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there. And the slaves of Isaac dug a well there.
Genesis 26:33
And he called it Shebah; so the name of the city is The Well of Sheba until this day.
Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees, which you make for yourself near the altar of Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The God of old is a refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And He shall cast the enemy out from before you, and shall say, Destroy!
Judges 3:7
And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgot Jehovah their God, and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were born, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to 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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