Joshua 21:12
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New International Version (©1984)
But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But they gave its fields and villages to Caleb, son of Jephunneh, as his possession.

King James Bible
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

American King James Version
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

American Standard Version
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Bible in Basic English
But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the fields and the villages thereof he had given to Caleb the son of Jephone for his possession.

Darby Bible Translation
But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

English Revised Version
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

World English Bible
But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Young's Literal Translation
and the field of the city and its villages they have given to Caleb son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Geneva Study Bible

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Wesley's Notes

21:12 The fields and villages - That is, all beyond the two thousand cubits expressed, Numb 35:5. This is here mentioned, not as his peculiar case, but as one eminent instance, to shew, that it was so in all the rest of the cities here named; that the fields and villages thereof still belonged to the several tribes from whom the cities and their suburbs were taken; and to make the rest of the Israelites more chearfully resign part of their possessions to the Levites, because even Caleb did so, though his possession had been long before promised, and now actually given to him by God's special command, as a mark of honour and compensation for his long and faithful service.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:9-42 By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see that the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every tribe had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel more diffused amongst us.


Joshua 21:11 Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.
Joshua 21:13 So to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Libnah with its pasture lands, (NASB ©1995)

Caleb City Country Hamlets Jephunneh Jephun'neh Open Places Possession Property Round Thereof Unwalled Villages

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Jos 14:13-15 1Ch 6:55-57

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