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Numbers 35:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

to say to them: When you receive your tribal lands, you must give towns and pastures to the Levi tribe.

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and then announced to the people of Israel: While Saul was king, the sacred chest was ignored. But now it's time to bring the chest to Jerusalem. We will invite everyone in Israel to come here, including the priests and the Levites in the towns surrounded by pasture land. But we will do these things only if you agree, and if the LORD our God wants us to.

And since Jeroboam and the kings of Israel who followed him would not allow any Levites to serve as priests, most Levites left their towns and pasture lands in Israel and moved to Jerusalem and other towns in Judah.

Hezekiah also appointed other men to take food and supplies to the priests and Levites whose homes were in the pasture land around the towns of Judah. But the priests had to be descendants of Aaron, and the Levites had to be listed in the official records.

I also found out that the temple singers and several other Levites had returned to work on their farms, because they had not been given their share of the harvest.

together with the share belonging to the Levites and the city of Jerusalem. The northern border of the ruler's property will be the land that belongs to Judah, and the southern border will be the land that belongs to Benjamin.

South of Judah's territory will be a special section of land. Its length will be twelve and a half kilometres, and its width will run from the eastern border of Israel west to the Mediterranean Sea. My temple will be in this section of land.

While the people of Israel were still camped in the lowlands of Moab across the River Jordan from Jericho, the LORD told Moses

That way, the Levites will have towns to live in and pastures for their animals.

Any Levite can leave his home town, and go to the place where the LORD chooses to be worshipped,




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