Numbers 35:2

Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the + 35:2 Or, lots.lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about + 35:2 i. e. the Levites.them.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

In Context

1And the Lord spoke to Moses to the west of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

3And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their + 35:3 Or, districts, i. e. spaces marked off. Gr. special offerings of land, q. d. glebe lands. This latter sense is probably the right one here.enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:32And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.

Joshua 14:3But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

Joshua 21:2And they spoke to them in Selo in the land of Chanaan, saying, The Lord gave commandment by + 21:2 Gr. the hand of Moses.Moses to give us cities to dwell in, and the country round about for our cattle.

2 Chronicles 11:14For the Levites left the tents of their possession, and went to Juda to Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had ejected them so that they should not minister to the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:1And when ye measure the land for inheritance, ye shall set apart first-fruits to the Lord, a holy space of the land, in length twenty and five thousand reeds, and in breadth twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

Ezekiel 48:8And from the borders of Juda, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of first-fruits, in breadth twenty-five thousand reeds, and in length as one of the portions measured from the east even to the western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 35:2-9

The Cities of the Levites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. 3 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. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye… Read the whole commentary →

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