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Territories for the Levites

1 Chronicles 6:64

In 11 translations

BSB
So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.
KJV
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
WEB
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
ASV
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
LSV
And the sons of Israel give the cities and their outskirts to the Levites.
YLT
And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.
DBY
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.
DRC
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.
GNV
Thus the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities with their suburbes.
JPS6:49
So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with the open land about them.
LXXE6:49
So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

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Original-language editions

WLC6:49
וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לַלְוִיִּ֑ם אֶת־הֶעָרִ֖ים וְאֶת־מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽם׃KJV:1Chr.6.64
LXX-Br6:49
Καὶ ἔδωκαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ τοῖς Λευίταις τὰς πόλεις καὶ τὰ περισπόρια αὐτῶν.

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  • Joshua 21:41–42For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites. Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all…
  • Joshua 21:3So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
  • Numbers 35:1–8Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho: “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around…

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  • 6:49 in some Bibles
  • 6:64 in most Bibles

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