Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Wednesday in Easter Week
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

New Living Translation

Numbers 35:7

In all, forty-eight towns with the surrounding pastureland will be given to the Levites.

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 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

1 While Israel was camped beside the Jordan on the plains of Moab across from Jericho, the Lord said to Moses, 2 "Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites from their property certain towns to live in, along with the surrounding pasturelands. 3 These towns will be for the Levites to live in, and the surrounding lands will provide pasture for their cattle, flocks, and other livestock. 4 The pastureland assigned to the Levites around these towns will extend 1,500 feet from the town walls in every direction. 5 Measure off 3,000 feet outside the town walls in every direction—east, south, west, north—with the town at the center. This area will serve as the larger pastureland for the towns. 6 "Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, where a person who has accidentally killed someone can flee for safety. In addition, give them forty-two other towns. 7 In all, forty-eight towns with the surrounding pastureland will be given to the Levites. 8 These towns will come from the property of the people of Israel. The larger tribes will give more towns to the Levites, while the smaller tribes will give fewer. Each tribe will give property in proportion to the size of its land."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 28:13
At the top of the stairway stood the Lord , and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants.
Genesis 28:19
He named that place Bethel (which means "house of God"), although it was previously called Luz.
Genesis 28:22
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me."
Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Get ready and move 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 are now going to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who answered my prayers when I was in distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone."
Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem.
Genesis 35:5
As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob's family.
Exodus 17:15
Moses built an altar there and named it Yahweh-Nissi (which means "the Lord is my banner").
Judges 6:24
And Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it Yahweh-Shalom (which means "the Lord is peace"). The altar remains in Ophrah in the land of the clan of Abiezer to this day.
Ezekiel 48:35
"The distance around the entire city will be 6 miles. And from that day the name of the city 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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile