Joshua 21:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 21:3 : 3 And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.
  • Prov 18:18 : 18 The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.
  • Num 32:2 : 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,
  • Num 33:54 : 54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.
  • Num 35:3 : 3 These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,
  • Josh 18:6 : 6 And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.

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  • Josh 21:2-7
    6 verses
    88%

    2 And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

    3 And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

    4 And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

    5 The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    6 The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.

    7 The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.

  • 1 Chr 6:63-65
    3 verses
    82%

    63 And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

    64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

    65 And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.

  • Josh 21:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    9 From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

    10 These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.

  • Num 35:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

  • Josh 14:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    1 And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;

    2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

    3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

    4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

    5 As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.

  • Num 34:13
    78%

    13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:

  • Num 8:20
    77%

    20 All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did.

  • Num 35:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7 Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

    8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

    9 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 21:40-42
    3 verses
    76%

    40 All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns.

    41 All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

    42 Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

  • Num 2:33
    74%

    33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

  • Josh 18:10
    74%

    10 And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.

  • Josh 21:20
    74%

    20 The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

  • Josh 18:6-8
    3 verses
    73%

    6 And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.

    7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

    8 So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.

  • Ezek 47:21
    73%

    21 You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.

  • Josh 13:8
    72%

    8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given their heritage, which Moses gave them, on the east side of Jordan, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them;

  • Num 34:29
    72%

    29 These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 34:16
    72%

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 13:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32 These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east.

    33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.

  • Num 31:47
    71%

    47 Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Num 31:31
    71%

    31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • Ezek 48:29
    71%

    29 This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.

  • Num 8:23
    71%

    23 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 1 Chr 6:61
    71%

    61 And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 21:34
    71%

    34 And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;

  • Josh 21:26
    71%

    26 All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

  • Num 36:13
    71%

    13 These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.

  • Josh 19:51
    71%

    51 These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.

  • Josh 20:8
    70%

    8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.