By an Homoceoteleuton (App-6) some scribe, writing as far as "four cities "at end of Joshua 21:35, went back with his eye to the same words at the end of Joshua 21:37, and omitted, by an accident, the two verses Joshua 21:36 and Joshua 21:37, and continued at Joshua 21:38, which commences with the some words which end Joshua 21:35. Hence they are not contained in the current text of the Hebrew Bible. The Authorized Version puts these verses in, however, without. note; the Revised Version also, but with. note. The two verses are contained in all the early printed Hebrew Bibles, the Septuagint and Vulgate, and very many codices. They were first omitted by Jacoh ben Chayim (1524, 1525), and the current Hebrew printed texts have followed him.
Related Commentaries of Joshua 21:38
Joshua 21:38
38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,