For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to YHWH.
Numbers 35:3 - Y'all Version Bible They will have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands will be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They shall have the cities to dwell in and their [suburb] pasturelands shall be for their cattle, for their wealth [in flocks], and for all their beasts. American Standard Version (1901) And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. Common English Bible The cities will be theirs in which to live. Their pastures will be for their cattle, their possessions, and all their animals. Catholic Public Domain Version cities as dwelling places, with their surrounding suburbs, so that they may lodge in the towns, and so that the suburbs may be for cattle and beasts of burden. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts. |
For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to YHWH.
Of this, there will be a square section for the holy place, 500 by 500 cubits with 50 cubits around it for pasture lands.
“You are to command the children of Israel to give the Levites cities to dwell in from their inheritance. Y’all are to give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.
“The pasture lands of the cities, which y’all are to give to the Levites, will be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which YHWH chooses,
They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.