Numbers 35:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ The Levites will be able to live in those cities. And all the cows and other animals that belong to the Levites will be able to eat from the pastures around those cities.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ They shall have the cities to dwell in and their [suburb] pasturelands shall be for their cattle, for their wealth [in flocks], and for all their beasts.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And 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.

Common English Bible

³ The cities will be theirs in which to live. Their pastures will be for their cattle, their possessions, and all their animals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ cities as dwelling places, with their surrounding suburbs, so that they may lodge in the towns, and so that the suburbs may be for cattle and beasts of burden.

Numbers 35:3 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:14

The Levites left their grasslands and their own fields and came to Judah and Jerusalem. The Levites did this because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests to the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:2

A square area that is 500 cubits {\cf2\super [426]} long on each side will be for the temple. There will be an open space around the temple that is 50 cubits {\cf2\super [427]} wide.

Numbers 35:2

“Tell the people of Israel that they should give some of the cities in their part of the land to the Levites. The people of Israel should give those cities and the pastures around them to the Levites.

Numbers 35:4

{How much of your land should you give to the Levites?} From the walls of the cities, go out 1,500 feet [383] —all of that land will belong to the Levites.

Deuteronomy 18:6

“{Every Levite [116] man has a special time to work at the temple. But if he wants to work there some other time too, then he may work anytime he wants.} Any Levite living in any town anywhere in Israel may leave his home and come to the Lord’s special place. He may do this any time he wants.

Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath Arba (This is Hebron. It was named for a man named Arba. Arba was the father of Anak.) They also gave them some land near the town for their animals.