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Numbers 35:7

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.

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

8 The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”

9 Then the LORD said to Moses,

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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 total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
KJV
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
WEB
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
ASV
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
DARBY
all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.
BLB
And all the cities that you⁺ will give to the Levites [are] forty-eight cities—these and their pasturelands.
ÅB
I alt skal dere gi levittene åtte og førti byer med tilhørende jorder.
OTB
I alt skal dere gi førtifire byer til levittene, sammen med deres beitemarker.
B1930
I alt skal I gi levittene åtte og firti byer med tilhørende jorder.

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  • Joshua 21:3–42

    So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

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  • 1 Chronicles 6:54–81

    Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:

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