Numbers 35:7
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
Numbers 35:7 in other translations
| BSB | The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs. |
| DARBY | all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs. |
| BBE | Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them. |
| Webster | So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. |
What does Numbers 35:7 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 35:1-8
The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them, but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For though the typical service of the tabernacle or temple was only in one place, the preaching of the word of God, and prayer and praise, were not thus confined. These cities were to be given out of each tribe. Each thus made a grateful acknowledgement to God. Each tribe…
Numbers 35:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 35:7
- Joshua 21:3-42
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs. And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities. And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. …
- 1 Chronicles 6:54-81
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it. But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, …
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Context
- Numbers 35:6
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
- Numbers 35:7
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
- Numbers 35:8
And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
Numbers 35:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Todas las ciudades que daréis á los Levitas serán cuarenta y ocho ciudades; ellas con sus ejidos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Toutes les villes que vous donnerez aux Lévites seront 48 villes, elles et leurs banlieues. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Alle die Städte, die ihr den Leviten geben sollt, sie und ihre Bezirke, sollen 48 Städte sein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | id est, simul quadraginta octo cum suburbanis suis. |