Numbers 35:7

all the cities which you give to the Levites [are] forty-eight cities, them and their outskirts.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

In Context

6And the cities which you give to the Levites [are] the six cities of refuge, which you give for the fleeing there of the manslayer, and besides them you give forty-two cities;

8And the cities which you give [are] from the possession of the sons of Israel; from the many you multiply, and from the few you diminish; each, according to his inheritance which they inherit, gives to the Levites from his cities.”

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Cross References

Joshua 21:3And the sons of Israel give to the Levites, out of their inheritance, at the command of YHWH, these cities and their outskirts:

1 Chronicles 6:54And these [are] their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for the lot was theirs;

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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