Numbers 35:1
Yahweh told this to Moses/me while the Israeli people were on the plain in the Moab region near the Jordan River, across from Jericho:
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 22:1Then the Israelis traveled west to the area of Moab that was in the valley of the Jordan River, across the river from Jericho city.
Numbers 31:12They brought all these to Eliezer and Moses/me, and to the rest of the Israeli people who were at their/our camp on the plains where the Moab people-group lived, near the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Numbers 36:13Those were the commands [DOU] that Yahweh gave to Moses/me to tell to the Israelis, while they/we were on the plains of the Moab region, close to the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Joshua 21:1While Eleazar the Supreme Priest and Joshua and the leaders of all the Israeli tribes were at Shiloh, the leaders of the clans of the tribe of Levi went to them and said, “Yahweh commanded Moses that you should give us towns where we can have pasture/fields/grassland for our animals, but you have not done these things yet.”
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 →