The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
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The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
And the sons of Israel gave these cities and their pasturelands to the Levites by the lot, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
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The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these cities, together with their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these cities, together with their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
So the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbes, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, giving to every one by lot.
And the sons of Israel give to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, by lot.
And the sons of Israel give these cities and their outskirts to the Levites, as YHWH commanded by the hand of Moses, by lot.
So the people of Israel gave, by casting lots, these cities (including their pasturelands) to the Levites, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
And the sons of Israel gave these cities and their pasturelands to the Levites by the lot, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded through Moses.
The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as the LORD commanded by Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
So the Israelites gave the Levites by lot these towns and pastures, as the Lord had instructed through Moses.
All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with the open land about them, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם אֶת הֶעָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה וְאֶת מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶ֑ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בְּיַד מֹשֶׁ֖ה בַּגּוֹרָֽל
The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί δίδωμι ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ ὁ λευίτης ὁ πόλις καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός ὅς τρόπος ἐντέλλομαι κύριος ὁ μωυσῆς κληρωτί
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded Moses, by lot.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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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וִיהָבוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְלֵוָאֵי יַת קִרְוַיָא הָאִילֵן וְיַת רְוָחֵיהֶן כְּמָא דְפַקֵד יְיָ בִּידָא דְמֹשֶׁה בְּעַדְבָא:
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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 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gôwrâl (“lot”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:8 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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