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Księga Liczb 35:5

I rozmierzycie od miasta ku wschodu słońca dwa tysiąca łokiet, ku stronie południowej dwa tysiąca łokiet, ku zachodu dwa tysiąca, ku północy dwa tysiąca łokiet, tak iż miasto w pośrzodku będzie. A toć będą przedmieścia ich około miast.

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;   Sabbath Day's Journey;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge;   Gezer;   Pentateuch;   Sabbath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge;   Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Travel (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Levi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Przetoż wymierzycie za każdem miastem dwa tysiące łokci na wschód słońca, na południe też dwa tysiące łokci, także na zachód dwa tysiące łokci, i na północy dwa tysiące łokci, a miasto w pośrodku będzie; takoweć będą przedmieścia miast ich.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Odmierzycie też na zewnątrz miasta - po stronie wschodniej, południowej, zachodniej i północnej - po dwa tysiące łokci, z miastem leżącym w środku, i to będą [również] ich pastwiska miejskie.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Więc za miastem wymierzycie po stronie wschodniej dwa tysiące łokci, po stronie południowej dwa tysiące łokci, po stronie zachodniej dwa tysiące łokci i po stronie północnej dwa tysiące łokci, a miasto będzie pośrodku. Takie będą dla nich przyległości przy miastach.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Przetoż wymierzycie za każdem miastem dwa tysiące łokci na wschód słońca, na południe też dwa tysiące łokci, także na zachód dwa tysiące łokci, i na północy dwa tysiące łokci, a miasto w pośrodku będzie; takoweć będą przedmieścia miast ich.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Odmierzycie również poza miastem dwa tysiące łokci po stronie wschodniej, po stronie południowej też dwa tysiące łokci, także po stronie zachodniej dwa tysiące łokci i po stronie północnej dwa tysiące łokci, a miasto będzie w środku. To będą pastwiska ich miast.
Biblia Warszawska
Poza miastem odmierzycie dwa tysiące łokci po stronie wschodniej, dwa tysiące łokci po stronie południowej, dwa tysiące łokci po stronie zachodniej i dwa tysiące łokci po stronie północnej, miasto zaś będzie w środku. To będą ich podmiejskie pastwiska.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits,.... Before only 1000 cubits were ordered to be

measured, and now 2000, even 2000 more, which were to be added to the other, and to begin where they ended. The first 1000 were for their cattle and goods, these 2000 for their gardens, orchards, fields, and vineyards; and so the Jewish writers understand it. Jarchi observes, that 1000 cubits are ordered, and after that 2000; and asks, how is this? or how is it to be reconciled? to which he answers, 2000 are put to them round about, and of them the 1000 innermost are for suburbs, and the outermost (i.e. the 2000) are for fields and vineyards; and with this agrees the Misnah a, from whence he seems to have taken it; and the same was to be on every other side of the city, south, west, and north, as follows:

and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; which, added to the other 1000 all around, must make a large circumference of land:

and the city shall be in the midst; in the midst of the circuit of three thousand cubits all around, so that it must stand very pleasant and convenient:

this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities; such a quantity of ground, consisting of so many cubits, shall be assigned to every city; the suburbs or glebe land to a Levite's city, on the four sides were four squares, and each square consisted of seventy six acres, one rood, twenty perches, and eighty square feet; all the four squares amounting to three hundred and five acres, two roods, one perch, besides fifty seven feet square, according to Bishop Cumberland.

a Sotah, c. 5. sect. 3. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From without the city - Omit “from.” The demarcation here intended would run parallel to the wall of the city, outside which it was made. To guard against any restrictions of area, due to such causes as the irregular forms of the cities or the physical obstacles of the ground, it was ordained that the suburb should, alike on north, south, east, and west, present, at a distance of one thousand cubits (or, nearly one-third of a mile) from the wall, a front not less than two thousand cubits in length; and, by joining the extremities of these measured fronts according to the nature of the ground, a sufficient space for the Levites would be secured.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 35:5. And ye shall measure from without the city - two thousand cubits, c. — Commentators have been much puzzled with the accounts in these two verses. In Numbers 35:4 the measure is said to be 1,000 cubits from the wall in Numbers 35:5 the measure is said to be 2,000 from without the city. It is likely these two measures mean the same thing; at least so it was understood by the Septuagint and Coptic, who have δισχιλιους πηχεις, 2,000 cubits, in the fourth, as well as in the fifth verse; but this reading of the Septuagint and Coptic is not acknowledged by any other of the ancient versions, nor by any of the MSS. collated by Kennicott and De Rossi. We must seek therefore for some other method of reconciling this apparently contradictory account. Sundry modes have been proposed by commentators, which appear to me, in general, to require full as much explanation as the text itself. Maimonides is the only one intelligible on the subject. "The suburbs," says he, "of the cities are expressed in the law to be 3,000 cubits on every side from the wall of the city and outwards. The first thousand cubits are the suburbs, and the 2,000, which they measured without the suburbs, were for fields and vineyards." The whole, therefore, of the city, suburbs, fields, and vineyards, may be represented by the following diagram: -

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