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Joshua 21:3-5
Lexham English Bible
Joshua 21:3-5
Lexham English Bible
3 So, by command of Yahweh,[a] the Israelites[b] gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands from their inheritance.
4 The allotment fell[c] for the families of the Kohathites.[d] The descendants[e] of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, received[f] by lot thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
5 The remaining descendants[g] of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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- Joshua 21:3 Literally “by the mouth of Yahweh”
- Joshua 21:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Joshua 21:4 Literally “came out”
- Joshua 21:4 Hebrew “Kohathite”
- Joshua 21:4 Or “sons”
- Joshua 21:4 Literally “they had”
- Joshua 21:5 Or “sons”
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