Numbers 35:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Since the towns for the Levites must come from Israel's own tribal lands, the larger tribes will give more towns than the smaller ones.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

Now I place a curse on you because of your fierce anger. Your descendants will be scattered among the tribes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:14

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.

Exodus 16:18

according to their needs, and none was left over.

Leviticus 25:32

If any Levites own houses inside a walled city, they will always have the right to buy them back.

Numbers 26:54

so the larger tribes have more land than the smaller ones.

Numbers 33:54

I will show you how to divide the land among the tribes, according to the number of clans in each one, so that the larger tribes will have more land than the smaller ones.

Numbers 35:9

The LORD then told Moses