InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Jos C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C22 C23 C24
Jos 21 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V43 V45
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jacob (Israel)
OET-LV All_of the_cities_of the_Lēviyyiy in_the_middle of_the_possession_of of_the_people_of of_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) were_cities forty and_eight and_their_pasture_of_lands.
OET (OET-RV) So altogether the Levites received forty-eight cities and their surrounding fields from with the territories of the other tribes—
For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
¶ All the towns that the clan of Levi received in the land of the people of Israel numbered forty-eight towns with the grazing lands around them.
¶ The total number of towns that the descendants of Levi were given inside the land that belonged to Israel was forty-eight towns and their grasslands.
For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all: This is the concluding paragraph of this chapter about the clans of Levi. The phrase For the Levites…forty-eight cities refers to all the towns named in the previous verses. They were all given to the clan of Levi to live in.
together with their pasturelands: Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
with the grazing lands around them
and their grasslands
within the territory of the Israelites: The phrase within the territory of the Israelites indicates that these towns were scattered among all the lands that belonged to the Israelites.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
The towns that the clan of Levi received within the land of the people of Israel
The total number of towns that the Levi clan were given in the land that belonged to the Israel people
OET-LV All_of the_cities_of the_Lēviyyiy in_the_middle of_the_possession_of of_the_people_of of_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) were_cities forty and_eight and_their_pasture_of_lands.
OET (OET-RV) So altogether the Levites received forty-eight cities and their surrounding fields from with the territories of the other tribes—
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.