All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs.

Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them.

Omnes urbes filiorum Aaron sacerdotum, tredecim urbes et suburbana earum.

Thirteen cities with their suburbs - At the time mentioned here certainly thirteen cities were too large a proportion for the priests, as they and their families amounted to a very small number: but this ample provision was made in reference to their great increase in after times, when they formed twenty-four courses, as in the days of David.

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,.... Those of the Kohathites that came from him:
were thirteen cities with their suburbs; and just so many are mentioned by name in Joshua 21:11.