Numbers 35:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 21:11 : 11 They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.
  • 2 Chr 11:14 : 14 For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;
  • Ezek 45:2 : 2 Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 35:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

    2Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

  • Num 35:4-9
    6 verses
    81%

    4Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

    5The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

    6And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

    7Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

    8And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

    9And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 21:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

    3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

  • Lev 25:31-34
    4 verses
    77%

    31But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

    32But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

    33And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

    34But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

  • Deut 3:19
    77%

    19But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

  • Josh 14:4
    74%

    4Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • Lev 25:7
    74%

    7And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Num 35:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

    14Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

  • Josh 21:41-42
    2 verses
    73%

    41All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

    42Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

  • 1 Chr 6:64
    73%

    64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

  • Jer 33:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.

    13In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.

  • Jer 31:24
    72%

    24And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks.

  • Num 32:4
    72%

    4The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

  • Num 32:16
    72%

    16Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

  • Ezek 45:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.

    5A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.

    6And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.

  • Deut 19:2
    71%

    2You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

  • 1 Chr 6:55-56
    2 verses
    71%

    55To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

    56But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

  • Isa 34:17
    71%

    17And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Ezek 48:15
    71%

    15And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.

  • Num 31:30
    71%

    30And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

  • Num 34:2
    70%

    2Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

  • Josh 21:35
    70%

    35Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Zeph 2:6
    70%

    6And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • Deut 21:3
    70%

    3And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

  • Ps 69:35
    69%

    35For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

  • Deut 28:3
    69%

    3A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

  • Deut 20:15
    69%

    15So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

  • Num 32:26
    69%

    26Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

  • Num 15:2
    69%

    2Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place,

  • Deut 18:8
    69%

    8His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

  • Jer 6:3
    69%

    3Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.

  • Deut 2:35
    69%

    35Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.