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Josva 21,11

AnakArbaJudahHebronJudah

9 Fra stammene Juda og Simeon tildelte de følgende byer ved navn:

10 Disse byene var for etterkommerne av Aron, fra kehatittenes klaner av levittene, da deres lodd var først.

De ga dem Kirjat-Arba (det vil si Hebron), med dens omkringliggende beitemarker, i fjellandet Juda. (Arba var far til Anak-linjen.)

12 Men markene og landsbyene rundt byen hadde blitt gitt til Kaleb, Jefunnes sønn, som hans eiendom.

13 Så de ga byen Hebron til Arons etterkommere. (en tilfluktsby for den som hadde drept noen utilsiktet), de ga også Arons etterkommere byene Libna,

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BSB
They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
KJV
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
WEB
They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
ASV
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
DARBY
and they gave them Kirjath-Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak, that is, Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with its suburbs round about it.
BLB
And they gave to them Kiriath-arba (the father of Anak) that [is], Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, and with its pasturelands surrounding it.
ÅB
fikk Arbas, anakittenes stamfars by, det er Hebron, i Juda-fjellene med tilhørende jorder rundt omkring;
OTB
De ga dem Kirjat-Arba (det vil si Hebron), med dens omkringliggende beitemarker, i fjellandet Juda. (Arba var far til Anak-linjen.)
B1930
fikk Arbas, anakittenes stamfars by, det er Hebron, i Juda-fjellene med tilhørende jorder rundt omkring;

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