And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Villages. Twenty-nine of the former cities were of greater note; the six, or taking in the three belonging to Caleb, the nine others which are mentioned, (Calmet) were only villages. (Menochius)
Others think that these nine towns are not numbered here, because they were allotted to the tribe of Simeon, chap. xix. 2
