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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Douay-Rheims Bible

Numbers 35:3

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:

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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and 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.
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 these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho: 2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions, 3 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: 4 Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side: 5 Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without. 6 And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities, 7 That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs. 8 And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.

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 I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.
Genesis 31:3
Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,
Genesis 32:24
He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning.
Genesis 35:1
In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.
Genesis 35:5
And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
Genesis 35:12
And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Genesis 35:13
And he departed from 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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