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Numbers 35:7

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaan;   Levites;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cities;   Levites, the;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - City of refuge;   Levite;   Tribes;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Suburbs;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avenger;   Cities of Refuge;   Levites;   Pasture;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Levi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pi-Hahi'roth,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Levitical Cities;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs.
King James Version
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
Lexham English Bible
All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands.
English Standard Version
All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.
New Century Version
give the Levites a total of forty-eight cities and their pastures.
New English Translation
"So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.
Amplified Bible
"So you shall give to the Levites forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible
"The total number of the cities which you are to give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the cities which yee shall giue to the Leuites, shalbe eight and fourtie cities: them shal ye giue with their suburbes.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands.
Contemporary English Version
so they will have a total of forty-eight towns with their surrounding pastures.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus you will give the L'vi'im forty-eight cities, with their surrounding open land.
Darby Translation
all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.
Easy-to-Read Version
So you will give a total of 48 cities to the Levites. You will also give them the land around those cities.
George Lamsa Translation
So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities in all, together with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
with their pasture land, making a total of forty-eight.
Christian Standard Bible®
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands.
Literal Translation
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty eight cities, them and the open land around them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so yt all ye cities which ye geue vnto ye Leuites, be eight & fourtye wt their suburbes.
American Standard Version
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.
Bible in Basic English
Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that all the cities whiche ye shall geue the Leuites, may be fourtie and eyght, them [shall ye geue] with their suburbes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
So all the cities which ye shall giue to the Leuites, shall be fourty and eight cities: them shall yee giue with their suburbs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs.
English Revised Version
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
Berean Standard Bible
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that is, togidere eiyte and fourti, with her surburbabis.
Young's Literal Translation
all the cities which ye give to the Levites [are] forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.
Update Bible Version
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them [you shall give] with their suburbs.
Webster's Bible Translation
[So] all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
World English Bible
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs.
New King James Version
So all the cities you will give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; these you shall give with their common-land.
New Living Translation
In all, forty-eight towns with the surrounding pastureland will be given to the Levites.
New Life Bible
Give forty-eight cities in all to the Levites, together with their fields.
New Revised Standard
The towns that you give to the Levites shall total forty-eight, with their pasture lands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be forty-eight cities, - them, and their pasture lands,
Douay-Rheims Bible
That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.
Revised Standard Version
All the cities which you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 21:3-42, 1 Chronicles 6:54-81

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty eight cities,.... Of these forty eight cities, their names, and what tribes they were in, and which of them were particularly cities of refuge, an account is given in Joshua 21:10:

them shall ye give, with their suburbs; according to the dimensions before prescribed.


 
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