Numbers 35:4
2 “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
3 The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
5 You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
6 Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
- KJV
- And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
- WEB
- “The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.
- ASV
- And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
- DARBY
- And the suburbs of the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be from the walls of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.
- BLB
- And the pasturelands of the cities that you⁺ shall give the Levites [is] from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around.
- ÅB
- Og jordene omkring byene, som dere skal gi levittene, skal strekke seg fra bymuren tusen alen ut rundt omkring.
- OTB
- "Beitemarkene rundt byene som dere gir til levittene skal strekke seg ut tusen alen fra bymuren.
- B1930
- Og jordene omkring byene, som I skal gi levittene, skal strekke sig fra bymuren tusen alen utefter rundt omkring.