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Brenton's Septuagint

Numbers 35:3

And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Tribes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Levite;   Suburbs;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge;   Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Levi;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals.
English Standard Version
The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.
New Century Version
Then the Levites will have cities where they may live and pastureland for their cattle, flocks, and other animals.
New English Translation
Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.
Amplified Bible
"The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their livestock.
New American Standard Bible
"The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their equipment and for all their other animals.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So they shall haue the cities to dwell in, & their suburbes shall be for their cattell, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.
Contemporary English Version
That way, the Levites will have towns to live in and pastures for their animals.
Complete Jewish Bible
They are to have the cities to live in, while their open land will be for their livestock, for growing crops and for all their animals.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Levites will be able to live in them. And all the cattle and other animals that belong to the Levites will be able to eat from the pastures around these cities.
George Lamsa Translation
And the cities they shall have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.
Good News Translation
These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.
Christian Standard Bible®
The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.
Literal Translation
And they shall have the cities to live in, and their open lands shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that they maye dwell in the cities, and in the suburbes to haue their catell, and substaunce, and all their beestes.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The cities shall they haue to dwell in, and the suburbes for their cattell, and for their possession, & al maner of beastes of theirs.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And the cities shall they haue to dwell in, and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattell, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other livestock.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
citees to dwelle, and the suburbabis of tho bi cumpas, that thei dwelle in `the citees, and the suburbabis be to beestis, and `werk beestis;
Young's Literal Translation
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.
Update Bible Version
And the cities they shall have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall have the cities to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
World English Bible
The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.
New King James Version
They shall have the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for their herds, and for all their animals.
New Living Translation
These towns will be for the Levites to live in, and the surrounding lands will provide pasture for their cattle, flocks, and other livestock.
New Life Bible
The cities will be theirs to live in. Their fields will be for their cattle and flocks and for all their animals.
New Revised Standard
The towns shall be theirs to live in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle, for their livestock, and for all their animals.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall the cities be theirs, to dwell in, - and their pasture lands, shall, ye for their cattle and for their goods and for all their beasts.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:
Revised Standard Version
The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses to the west of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 2 Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about them. 3 And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outwards two thousand cubits round about. 5 And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described. 6 And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities. 7 Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs. 8 And as for the cities which ye shall give out of the possession of the children of Israel, from those that have much ye shall give much, and from those that have less ye shall give less: they shall give of their cities to the Levites each one according to his inheritance which they shall inherit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 21:11, 2 Chronicles 11:14, Ezekiel 45:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 26:57 - these are Deuteronomy 18:6 - come Joshua 21:8 - by lot

Cross-References

Genesis 28:15
And behold I am with thee to preserve thee continually in all the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will bring thee back to this land; for I will not desert thee, until I have done all that I have said to thee.
Genesis 31:3
And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.
Genesis 31:42
Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
Genesis 32:7
And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.
Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.
Genesis 35:1
And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to the place, Baethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God that appeared to thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
Genesis 35:5
So Israel departed from Secima, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.
Genesis 35:12
And the land which I gave to Abraam and Isaac, I have given it to thee; and it shall come to pass that I will give this land also to thy seed after thee.
Genesis 35:13
And God went up from him from the place where he spoke with him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And cities shall they have to dwell in,.... For them and their families, and indeed for nothing else, they having no trades nor worldly business to carry on in them:

and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle; for stables and stalls to put them up in, and for barns and storehouses to lay in provender for them:

and for their goods; where to bestow them, as the increase of their fields, oliveyards, and vineyards, see Luke 12:18

and for all their beasts; or living creatures; or "for their whole life" z; or livelihood, whatsoever was for the support of it; the Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation, for all their necessities; and so Jarchi.

z לכל היתם "ad vitam ipsorum". Vid. Drusium.


 
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