Numbers 35:7
What does Numbers 35:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 35:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.
KJV
King James Version · 1611So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862all the cities which ye give to the Levites <FI>are<Fi> forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.
Context
v.6And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.
v.7This passage
v.8And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 21:3
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Jehovah, these cities with their suburbs.
- 1 Chronicles 6:54
Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
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