Numbers 35:7

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.”

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BSBPD

“The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“all the cities which ye give to the Levites <FI>are<Fi> forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 35:7 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 21:3So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
  2. Joshua 21:41For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
  3. 1 Chronicles 6:54Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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