Numbers 35:2

Good News Translation

“Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land around the cities.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 13:2

Then he announced to all the people of Israel, “If you give your approval and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send messengers to the rest of our people and to the priests and Levites in their towns, and tell them to assemble here with us.

2 Chronicles 11:14

The Levites abandoned their pastures and other land and moved to Judah and Jerusalem, because King Jeroboam of Israel and his successors would not let them serve as priests of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 31:19

Among the priests who lived in the cities assigned to Aaron's descendants or in the pasture lands belonging to these cities, there were responsible men who distributed the food to all the males in the priestly families and to everyone who was on the rolls of the Levite clans.

Nehemiah 13:10

I also learned that the Temple musicians and other Levites had left Jerusalem and gone back to their farms, because the people had not been giving them enough to live on.

Ezekiel 48:8

The next section of the land is to be set apart for special use. It is to be 10 miles wide from north to south, and the same length from east to west as the sections given to the tribes. The Temple will be located within this section.

Numbers 35:1

In the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 35:3

These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.

Deuteronomy 18:6

“Any Levite who wants to may come from any town in Israel to the one place of worship