Joshua 21:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ The Merarites according to their families received twelve towns from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of 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

To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen towns out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.

1 Chronicles 6:63

To the Merarites according to their families were allotted twelve towns out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Exodus 6:19

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their genealogies.

Numbers 3:20

The sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, by their ancestral houses.

Joshua 21:6

The Gershonites received by lot thirteen towns from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Joshua 21:8

These towns and their pasturelands the Israelites gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.