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Numbers 35:7

The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands.

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.
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.

Contextual Overview

1The Lord again spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho: 2“Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities. 3The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals. 4The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall five hundred yards on every side. 5Measure a thousand yards outside the city for the east side, a thousand yards for the south side, a thousand yards for the west side, and a thousand yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities. 6“The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge, which you will provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give forty-two other cities. 7The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands. 8Of the cities that you give from the Israelites’ territory, you should take more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one. Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 28:13
The Lord was standing there beside him, saying, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.
Genesis 28:19
and named the place Bethel, though previously the city was named Luz.
Genesis 28:22
This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.”
Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Genesis 35:3
We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”
Genesis 35:4
Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
Genesis 35:5
When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar and named it, “The Lord Is My Banner.”
Judges 6:24
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites today.
Ezekiel 48:35
The perimeter of the city will be six miles, and the name of the city from that day on will be, The Lord Is There.”

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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