Joshua - 21:33



33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 21:33.

Differing Translations

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all the cities of the Gershonite, for their families, are thirteen cities and their suburbs.
All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
Omnes urbes Gersonitarum per familias suas, tredecim urbes, et suburbana earum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

They received thirteen towns in all.

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