Numbers 35:3
What does Numbers 35:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 35:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
Context
v.2Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.
v.3This passage
v.4And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office unto Jehovah;
- Joshua 21:11
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
- Ezekiel 45:2
Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in length by five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.
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