Joshua 21:40 - Tree of Life Version

⁴⁰ All the towns that went by lot to the children of Merari (the remaining Levites) according to their clans, were 12 towns.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ So all the cities allotted to the Merarite families, that is, the remainder of the Levite families, were twelve cities.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ As for the cities of the descendants of Merari for their clans, the remaining clans of the Levites, their total allotment was twelve cities.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ with their suburbs, each distributed by families.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.

Joshua 21:40 Cross References

Joshua 21:39

Heshbon with its pastures, and Jazer with its pastures—4 towns in all.

Joshua 21:41

The total of the towns of the Levites within the holdings of Bnei-Yisrael was 48 towns with their pastures.

Joshua 21:7

The children of Merari according to their clans received 12 towns from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Zebulun.