These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
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These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
These cities were city, city, and its pasturelands around it, thus for all of these cities.
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These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.
Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
These cities lay euery one seuerallie with their suburbes round about them: so were all these cities.
And he gave them peace from all nations round about: and none of their enemies durst stand against them, but were brought under their dominion.
These cities are each city and its suburbs round about it; so to all these cities.
These cities are each city and its outskirts around it; so to all these cities.
These cities each had its surrounding pasturelands. It was this way with all these cities.
These cities were city, city, and its pasturelands around it, thus for all of these cities.
Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it: thus were all these cities.
Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.
These cities were every one with their suburbs around them. Thus were all these cities.
Each of these towns had pastures around them.
Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.
even these cities, every one with the open land round about it; thus it shall be with all these cities.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 34 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 34 words vs World English Bible 18. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
תִּֽהְיֶ֨ינָה֙ הֶעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה עִ֣יר עִ֔יר וּמִגְרָשֶׁ֖יהָ סְבִיבֹתֶ֑יהָ כֵּ֖ן לְכָל הֶעָרִ֥ים הָאֵֽלֶּה
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
World English Bible · Public Domain
κύκλος ὁ πόλις οὗτος πόλις καί ὁ περισπόριον κύκλος ὁ πόλις πᾶς ὁ πόλις οὗτος καί συντελέω ἰησοῦς διαμερίζω ὁ γῆ ἐν ὁ ὅριον αὐτός καί δίδωμι ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ μερίς ὁ ἰησοῦς κατά πρόσταγμα κύριος δίδωμι αὐτός ὁ πόλις ὅς αἰτέω ὁ θαμνασαραχ δίδωμι αὐτός ἐν ὁ ὄρος ἐφράιμ καί οἰκοδομέω ἰησοῦς ὁ πόλις καί οἰκέω ἐν αὐτός καί λαμβάνω ἰησοῦς ὁ μάχαιρα ὁ πέτρινος ἐν ὅς περιτέμνω ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ ὁ γίγνομαι ἐν ὁ ὁδός ἐν ὁ ἔρημος καί τίθημι αὐτός ἐν θαμνασαραχ
And the Lord gave them rest round about, as he swore to their fathers: not one of all their enemies maintained his ground against them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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יֶהֶוְיָן קִרְוַיָא הָאִלֵין קִרְוֵי קִרְוֵי וְרַוְחָהָא סַחֲרָנָהָא כֵּן לְכָל קִרְוַיָא הָאִלֵין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is migrâsh (“common land”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:42 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.