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Numbers 35:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.

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‘Next to the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, will be the portion you donate to the Lord, 13.25 kilometres  wide, and as long as one of the tribal portions from the east side to the west.  The sanctuary will be in the middle of it.


Except for the Levitical property and the city property in the middle of the area belonging to the prince, the area between the territory of Judah and that of Benjamin will belong to the prince.


The Lord again spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho:


The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.


When a Levite leaves one of your towns in Israel where he was staying and wants to go to the place the Lord chooses,


for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions  and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of the Lord.


and to the descendants of Aaron, the priests, in the common fields of their cities,  in each and every city. There were men who were registered by name  to distribute a portion to every male among the priests and to every Levite recorded by genealogy.


Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, ‘If it seems good to you, and if this is from the Lord our God, let’s spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands,  that they should gather together with us.


I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given,  each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.





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