Joshua 21:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ Merari’s descendants received twelve cities for their clans from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The Merarites received according to their families from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun twelve cities.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

Common English Bible

⁷ The descendants of Merari acquired twelve cities for their clans from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And to the sons of Merari, by their families, from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun, there went twelve cities.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribes of Ruben and or Gad and of Zabulon, twelve cities.

Joshua 21:7 Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:62

The Gershomites were assigned thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan according to their families.

1 Chronicles 6:63

The Merarites were assigned by lot twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun according to their families.

Exodus 6:19

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their family records.

Numbers 3:20

Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral families.

Joshua 21:6

Gershon’s descendants received thirteen cities by lot from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and half the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Joshua 21:8

The Israelites gave these cities with their pasturelands around them to the Levites by lot, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.