Joshua 14:4

For the children of Joseph There would have been only eight tribes and a half left, but the two sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, had been adopted by Jacob as his sons (Genesis 48:5), and were reckoned as tribes, and therefore there were still nine tribes and a half to receive their inheritance.

therefore they gave Rather, and they gave. The repetition of these statements respecting the Levites is not due "to the redundancy of the Semitic style," but is intended to shew the reader that the instructions left by Moses (Numbers 18:20; Numbers 35:2) had been literally and exactly fulfilled.

with their suburbs i. e. pasture-ground within the precincts of the cities, or certain districts round them in which their cattle might graze. These "pasture-grounds," rendered by Bunsen "commons," and in Switzerland called All-menden, are incorrectly translated in our version "suburbs," from the Vulgate suburbana; "suburbis of hem to hous beestis and his feeld beestis to be fed," Wyclif.