Joshua Chapter 21 verse 36 Holy Bible
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs,
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And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;
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and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,
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And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
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And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahazah with its suburbs,
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Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs,
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And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and Jahazah and its suburbs,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 36. - And out of the tribe of Reuben. This verse and the succeeding have the Masoretic note appended that they are not found in the Masora or true tradition. Kimchi therefore rejects them. But they are found in the LXX. and the rest of the ancient versions, and they are necessary to make up the number of forty-eight cities. Dr. Kennicott, as well as Michaelis, Rosenmuller, and Maurer defended their genuineness. So does Knobel, who complains that Rabbi Jacob Ben Chajim, in his Rabbinical Bible of 1525, has very improperly omitted these towns on the authority of the Masora, and that many editors have foolishly imitated him They have no doubt been omitted by the mistake of a copyist, who passed on from the אַרְבָע (four) of ver. 35 to that of ver. 37, omitting all that lay between. The LXX. adds here "the city of refuge for the slayer," words which may have possibly formed part of the original text, as they do in every other instance. Jahazah. It is worthy of remark that this city, with Heshbon and Jazer and Mephaath, fell into the hands of the Moabites in later times, a sad indication of religious declension (see Isaiah 15, 16; Jeremiah 48:21, 34).
