Numbers 35:1

And YHWH speaks to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, [near] Jericho, saying,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

In Context

2“Command the sons of Israel, and they have given to the Levites cities to inhabit from the inheritance of their possession; you also give [the] outskirt around them, of the cities, to the Levites.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:1And the sons of Israel journey and encamp in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan, [by] Jericho.

Numbers 31:12and they bring in the captives, and the prey, and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp, to the plains of Moab, which [are] by the Jordan, [near] Jericho.

Numbers 36:13These [are] the commands and the judgments which YHWH has commanded by the hand of Moses concerning the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, [near] Jericho.

Joshua 21:1And the heads of the fathers of the Levites draw near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 35:1

Orders having been given before for the dividing of the land of Canaan among the lay-tribes (as I may call them), care is here taken for a competent provision for the clergy, the tribe of Levi, which ministered in holy things. I. Forty-eight cities were to be assigned them, with their suburbs, some in every tribe, ver. 1-8 . II. Six cities out of these were to be for cities of refuge, for any man that killed another unawares, ver. 9-15 . In the law concerning these observe, 1. In what case sanctuary was not… Read the whole commentary →

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