Joshua 21:12 “But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb so…”

Joshua 21:12

But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

World English Bible

But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

American Standard Version

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Geneva Bible 1599

(But the lande of the citie, and the villages thereof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh to be his possession)

Darby Translation

But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Young's Literal Translation

and the field of the city and its villages they have given to Caleb son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Bible in Basic English

But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

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In context

11They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

13So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,

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