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Joshua 21:41
All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
Joshua 21:41 · New Heart English Bible
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Joshua 21:41 in other translations
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
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In context
38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
40 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
41 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
42 Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It was this way with all these cities.
43 So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.
44 The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. The Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.
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