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Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites

Numbers 35:7

In 11 translations

BSB
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
KJV
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
WEB
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
ASV
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.
LSV
all the cities which you give to the Levites [are] forty-eight cities, them and their outskirts.
YLT
all the cities which ye give to the Levites [are] forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.
DBY
all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.
DRC
That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.
GNV
All the cities which yee shall giue to the Leuites, shalbe eight and fourtie cities: them shall ye giue with their suburbes.
JPS
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them.
LXXE
Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כָּל־הֶעָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּתְּנוּ֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנֶ֖ה עִ֑יר אֶתְהֶ֖ן וְאֶת־מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן׃
LXX-Br
Πάσας τὰς πόλεις δώσετε τοῖς Λευίταις τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ὀκτὼ πόλεις· ταύτας, καὶ τὰ προάστεια αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Joshua 21:3–42So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance: The first lot came out for the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron…
  • 1 Chronicles 6:54–81Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them: They were given Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding…

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