Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands. New Living Translation In all, forty-eight towns with the surrounding pastureland will be given to the Levites. English Standard Version All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands. Berean Standard Bible The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands. King James Bible So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. New King James Version So all the cities you will give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; these you shall give with their common-land. New American Standard Bible The total number of the cities which you are to give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands. NASB 1995 “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands. NASB 1977 “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands. Legacy Standard Bible All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands. Amplified Bible So you shall give to the Levites forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasture lands. Christian Standard Bible The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands. Holman Christian Standard Bible The total number of cities you give the Levites will be 48, along with their pasturelands. American Standard Version All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs. Aramaic Bible in Plain English All the cities that you are giving to the Levites are forty and eight cities, those and their open spaces. Brenton Septuagint Translation Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs. Contemporary English Version so they will have a total of 48 towns with their surrounding pastures. Douay-Rheims Bible That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs. English Revised Version All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. GOD'S WORD® Translation So you will give a total of 48 cities with pastureland to the Levites. Good News Translation with their pasture land, making a total of forty-eight. International Standard Version The total number of towns that you are to give to the descendants of Levi is to be 48 towns, including grazing lands surrounding these towns. JPS Tanakh 1917 All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them. Literal Standard Version all the cities which you give to the Levites [are] forty-eight cities, them and their outskirts. Majority Standard Bible The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands. New American Bible a total of forty-eight cities with their pasture lands which you will assign to the Levites. NET Bible "So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands. New Revised Standard Version The towns that you give to the Levites shall total forty-eight, with their pasture lands. New Heart English Bible All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs. Webster's Bible Translation So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. World English Bible All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands. Young's Literal Translation all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Six Cities of Refuge6Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities. 7The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands. 8The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”… Cross References Numbers 35:2 "Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities. Joshua 21:41 For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites. Treasury of Scripture So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall you give with their suburbs. Joshua 21:3-42 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs… 1 Chronicles 6:54-81 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot… Jump to Previous Cities Eight Levites Open Pasture Pasturelands Round Suburbs Together TownsJump to Next Cities Eight Levites Open Pasture Pasturelands Round Suburbs Together TownsNumbers 35 1. Forty-eight cities for the Levites, with their suburbs, and measure thereof6. Six of them are to be cities of refuge 9. The laws of murder and manslaughter 31. No satisfaction for murder Verse 7. - Forty and eight cities. The Levites numbered nearly 50,000 souls (see on Numbers 26:62), so that each Levitical city would have an average population of about 1000 to start with. There seems no sufficient reason for supposing that they shared their towns with men of the surrounding tribe. Even if the provision made for their habitation was excessive at first (which does not appear), yet their rate of increase should have been exceptionally high, inasmuch as they were not liable to military service. It is possible that mystical reasons led to the selection of the number forty-eight (12 x 4, both typical of universality), but it is at least equally probable that it was determined by the actual numbers of the tribe. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The totalכָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every number of cities הֶעָרִ֗ים (he·‘ā·rîm) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 5892: Excitement you give תִּתְּנוּ֙ (tit·tə·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5414: To give, put, set the Levites לַלְוִיִּ֔ם (lal·wî·yim) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine plural Strong's 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi [will be] forty-eight, אַרְבָּעִ֥ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural Strong's 705: Forty with their corresponding אֶתְהֶ֖ן (’eṯ·hen) Direct object marker | third person feminine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case pasturelands. מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן׃ (miḡ·rə·šê·hen) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural Strong's 4054: A suburb, the area around a, building, the margin of the sea Links Numbers 35:7 NIVNumbers 35:7 NLT Numbers 35:7 ESV Numbers 35:7 NASB Numbers 35:7 KJV Numbers 35:7 BibleApps.com Numbers 35:7 Biblia Paralela Numbers 35:7 Chinese Bible Numbers 35:7 French Bible Numbers 35:7 Catholic Bible OT Law: Numbers 35:7 All the cities which you shall give (Nu Num.) |