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Joshua 21:37

Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.

  • KJV King James Version

    Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Kedemoth with the open land about it, and Mephaath with the open land about it; four cities.

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a…

Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see Deu 2:26,

and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which See Gill on Jos 13:18; where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:

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four cities, Jos 21:35, are not in some ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, as is noted by the Masorites; but are in some others, as Kimchi owns, and stand in the Targum, in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and in a manuscript referred to by Hottinger (e); and the same words are to be, found in Ch1 6:78, and are absolutely necessary to be retained, since without them there would be but eight cities for the Merarites, whereas they are expressly said to be twelve, Jos 21:40.

(e) Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181, &c.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. Kedemoth] Jos_13:18; Mephaath, see ch. Jos_13:18.
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