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Joshua 21:41

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the Israelites were forty-eight cities in all, with their pasturelands (suburbs).

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[The priests] shall teach Jacob Your ordinances and Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You and whole burnt offerings upon Your altar.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

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

These cities all had their pasturelands (suburbs) around them.

And the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities with their pasturelands.

So the Israelites gave to the Levites out of their own inheritance, at the command of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.