Joshua 21:19

19 All the cities together of the sons of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs. (All the cities given to the sons of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen cities, with their suburbs.)

Joshua 21:19 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:19

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests
Those of the Kohathites that came from him: [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs;
and just so many are mentioned by name in ( Joshua 21:11-18 ) .

Joshua 21:19 In-Context

17 And (out) of the lineage of the sons of Benjamin, he gave Gibeon, and Geba,
18 and Anathoth, and Almon, with their suburbs; four cities.
19 All the cities together of the sons of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs. (All the cities given to the sons of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen cities, with their suburbs.)
20 But to the others, by the families of the sons of Kohath, of the kin of Levi, this possession was given; (out) of the lineage of Ephraim, (And to the rest of the Kohathite families, that is, to the Levites of the lower degree, these possessions were given; from the tribe of Ephraim,)
21 the city of refuge, Shechem, with his suburbs, in the hill of Ephraim, and Gezer, (Shechem, the city of refuge, with its suburbs, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,)
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