Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
Numbers 35:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
- KJV
- And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
- WEB
- They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.
- ASV
- And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
- LSV
- And the cities have been for them to inhabit, and their outskirts are for their livestock, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
- YLT
- And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
- DBY
- And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
- DRC
- Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts:
- GNV
- So they shall haue the cities to dwell in, and their suburbes shall be for their cattell, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
- JPS
- And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their open land shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
- LXXE
- And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.Or, districts, i. e. spaces marked off. Gr. special offerings of land, q. d. glebe lands. This latter sense is probably the right one here.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְהָי֧וּ הֶֽעָרִ֛ים לָהֶ֖ם לָשָׁ֑בֶת וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶ֗ם יִהְי֤וּ לִבְהֶמְתָּם֙ וְלִרְכֻשָׁ֔ם וּלְכֹ֖ל חַיָּתָֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἔσονται αὐτοῖς αἱ πόλεις κατοικεῖν, καὶ τὰ ἀφορίσματα αὐτῶν ἔσται τοῖς κτήνεσιν αὐτῶν, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς τετράποσιν αὐτῶν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 2 Chronicles 11:14For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
- Joshua 21:11They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
- Ezekiel 45:2Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
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