Numbers 35: 2

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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
NUMBERS

CHAPTER 35

2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the ^aLevites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites ^bsuburbs for the cities round about them.

Footnotes

Num. 18: 23 (1, 20-32)

23 But the ^aLevites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

Josh. 21: 1 (1-3)

1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the ^aLevites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;

IE open areas for fields and pasture (also v. 3-7)

Lev. 25: 34 (32-34)

34 But the ^afield of the ^bsuburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Josh. 14: 4.

4 For the children of ^aJoseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their ^bsuburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

2 Chr. 11: 14.

14 For the Levites left their ^asuburbs and their ^bpossession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had ^ccast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:

Ezek. 48: 15 (15-17)

15 ¶ And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a ^aprofane place for the city, for dwelling, and for ^bsuburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.