Joshua 14:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath trodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast followed the Lord my God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no part was given in the land to the Levites except cities in which to live, with their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.

American Standard Version (1901)

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for their cattle and for their substance.

Common English Bible

The people of Joseph consisted of two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites weren’t given any portion of the land, except cities to live in and pastureland for their cattle and flocks.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For by succession, the sons of Joseph, in their place, were divided into two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. But the Levites did not receive another portion of land, except cities in which to live, and their suburbs, so as to feed their beasts of burden and cattle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim. Neither did the Levites receive other portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed their beasts and flocks.

Joshua 14:4 Cross References

Genesis 41:51

2 And he named the second Epharaim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.

Genesis 41:52

3 Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past:

Genesis 46:20

1 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor and Asbel and Gera and Naaman and Echi and Ros and Mophim and Ophim and Ared.

Genesis 48:1

And it was told the old man: Behold I thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened he sat on his bed.

Genesis 48:5

But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.

Genesis 48:6

For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Ohanaan in the very journey, and it was springtime: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.

2 Chronicles 30:1

And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and his princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the king's orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant of you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

Numbers 26:28

3 And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only daughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

Joshua 16:4

And there were cities with their villages separated for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of Manasses.