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41All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

Joshua 21:41

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 9-42)

We have here a particular account of the cities which were given to the children of Levi out of the several tribes, not only to be occupied and inhabited by them, as tenants to the several tribes in which they lay—no, their interest in them was not dependent and precarious, but to be owned and possessed by them as lords and proprietors, and as having the same title to them that the rest of the tri...

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