Josué 21:10

Darby's French Translation

et qui furent pour les fils d'Aaron, des familles des Kehathites, d'entre les fils de Lévi; car le premier lot fut pour eux.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Elles furent pour les enfants d'Aaron, des familles des Kéhathites, des enfants de Lévi (car le premier sort fut pour eux);

Louis Segond (1910)
et qui furent pour les fils d'Aaron d'entre les familles des Kehathites et des fils de Lévi, car le sort les avait indiqués les premiers.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et elles furent pour ceux des enfants d'Aaron, qui étaient des familles des Kéhathites, enfants de Lévi, car le premier sort fut pour eux.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 21:4, Exodus 6:18, Exodus 6:20-26, Numbers 3:2-4, Numbers 3:19, Numbers 3:27, Numbers 4:2

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families of the Kohathites,.... Who descending from Kohath, in the line of Aaron, were priests:

[who were] of the children of Levi, had; they were Levites, as descending from Levi, but were priests also, as being of the stock of Aaron, and the cities hereafter mentioned in the said tribe fell to their portion:

for theirs was the first lot; for being of the line of Aaron, and priests, they had the honour and privilege to have the first lot drawn for them, and out of the tribe for which the first lot was also drawn, the tribe of Judah; here they had their cities allotted them, for a reason before given.

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.