Verse Lens · Context pointer
Joshua 13:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
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Role in This Section
Joshua 13:30 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all…”.
Read It With
- Joshua 13:29–33
Read Joshua 13:30 with 13:29–33. Joshua 13:30 advances “Half-Manasseh Receives Bashan while Levi Receives the LORD” with the textual step “And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Half-Manasseh's eastern clans receive Bashan and Jair's towns; the Moab-plains summary closes Moses' allotments, again naming the LORD rather than territory as Levi's inheritance.
Why It Needs Context
Joshua 13:30 advances “Half-Manasseh Receives Bashan while Levi Receives the LORD” with the textual step “And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all…”. Its contribution depends on the names, boundary sequence, allotment logic, and closing qualification in Joshua 13:29-33; isolated teaching would turn one list item into a claim it does not make.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joshua 13:29-33 — Half-Manasseh Receives Bashan while Levi Receives the LORDSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 13:29-33, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 13:29–33
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