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.
Numbers 35:4 - Easy To Read Version {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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the pasturelands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward 1,000 cubits round about. American Standard Version (1901) And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. Common English Bible The pastures of the cities that you must give to the Levites will extend from the wall of the city outward for one thousand five hundred feet in all directions. Catholic Public Domain Version The suburbs shall extend from the outer walls of the cities, all around, for the space of one thousand steps. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side. |
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.
{Also} all of the land 3,000 feet [384] east of the city, and 3,000 feet south of the city, and 3,000 feet west of the city, and 3,000 feet north of the city will belong to the Levites. (The city will be in the middle of all that land.)