Numbers 35:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 21:11 : 11 They assigned them Kiriath Arba(Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.
  • 2 Chr 11:14 : 14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the LORD’s priests.
  • Ezek 45:2 : 2 Of this area a square 875 feet by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary, with 87½ feet set aside for its open space round about.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 35:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1The Levitical Cities Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab along the Jordan near Jericho. He said:

    2“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

  • Num 35:4-9
    6 verses
    81%

    4The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

    5“You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

    6Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.

    7“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

    8The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.

    9The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Josh 21:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”

    3So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the LORD had instructed.

  • Lev 25:31-34
    4 verses
    77%

    31The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

    32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

    33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem– the sale of a house which is his property in a city– must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

    34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

  • Deut 3:19
    77%

    19But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

  • Josh 14:4
    74%

    4The descendants of Joseph were considered as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were allotted no territory, though they were assigned cities in which to live, along with the grazing areas for their cattle and possessions.

  • Lev 25:7
    74%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Num 35:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.

    14“You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.

  • Josh 21:41-42
    2 verses
    73%

    41The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.

    42Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.

  • 1 Chr 6:64
    73%

    64So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.

  • Jer 33:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12“I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, say:‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

    13I, the LORD, say that shepherds will once again count their sheep as they pass into the fold. They will do this in all the towns in the hill country, the foothills, the Negev, the territory of Benjamin, the villages surrounding Jerusalem, and the towns of Judah.’

  • Jer 31:24
    72%

    24The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.

  • Num 32:4
    72%

    4the land that the LORD subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

  • Num 32:16
    72%

    16The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,

  • Ezek 45:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the LORD to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

    5An area eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities in which they will live.

    6“‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles wide and eight and a quarter miles long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

  • Deut 19:2
    71%

    2you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.

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

    55They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.

    56(But the city’s land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)

  • Isa 34:17
    71%

    17He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.

  • Ezek 48:15
    71%

    15“The remainder, one and two-thirds miles in width and eight and a quarter miles in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

  • Num 31:30
    71%

    30From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

  • Num 34:2
    70%

    2“Give these instructions to the Israelites, and tell them:‘When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders,

  • Josh 21:35
    70%

    35Dimnah, and Nahalal, along with the grazing areas of each– a total of four cities;

  • Zeph 2:6
    70%

    6The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

  • Deut 21:3
    70%

    3Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked– that has never pulled with the yoke–

  • Ps 69:35
    69%

    35For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.

  • Deut 28:3
    69%

    3You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

  • Deut 20:15
    69%

    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

  • Num 32:26
    69%

    26Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

  • Num 15:2
    69%

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

  • Deut 18:8
    69%

    8He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

  • Jer 6:3
    69%

    3Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

  • Deut 2:35
    69%

    35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.