Numbers 35:1 - The Message1-3 Then God spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho: “Command the People of Israel to give the Levites as their part of the total inheritance towns to live in. Make sure there is plenty of pasture around the towns. Then they will be well taken care of with towns to live in and pastures for their cattle, flocks, and other livestock. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17691 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition1 AND THE Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the Moab plains by the Jordan across from Jericho: Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version1 And the Lord also spoke these things to Moses in the plains of Moab, above the Jordan, opposite Jericho: Ver Capítulo |
God spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho: “Tell the People of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the country of Canaan, drive out the native population before you, destroy their carved idols, destroy their cast images, level their worship-mounds so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I’ve given it to you. It’s yours.
These are the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, the People of Israel counted in the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho. Not one of them had been among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest in the census of the People of Israel taken in the Wilderness of Sinai. For God had said of them, “They’ll die, die in the wilderness—not one of them will be left except for Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.”
“As to the Levitical cities, houses in the cities owned by the Levites are always subject to redemption. Levitical property is always redeemable if it is sold in a town that they hold and reverts to them in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the People of Israel. The pastures belonging to their cities may not be sold; they are their permanent possession.
The ancestral heads of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the heads of the other tribes of the People of Israel. This took place at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. They said, “God commanded through Moses that you give us cities to live in with access to pastures for our cattle.”