Numbers 35:4
The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.
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- Num 35:5-95 verses89%
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.
6 Now 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.
8 The 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.
9 The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
- Num 35:1-33 verses82%
1 The 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.
3 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.
- Ezek 48:15-184 verses76%
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;
16 these will be its measurements: The north side will be one and one-half miles, the south side one and one-half miles, the east side one and one-half miles, and the west side one and one-half miles.
17 The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.
18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.
- Ezek 45:1-66 verses75%
1 The Lord’s Portion of the Land“‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles and the width three and one-third miles. This entire area will be holy.
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.
3 From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles and a width of three and one-third miles; in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.
4 It 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.
5 An 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.
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30 “These are the exits of the city: On the north side, one and one-half miles by measure,
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13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles and the width three and one-third miles.
- Lev 25:31-344 verses71%
31 The 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.
32 As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.
33 Whatever 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.
34 Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.
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20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.
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64 So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.
- Ezek 48:8-103 verses70%
8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west side will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west side; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.
9 The allotment you set apart to the LORD will be eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width.
10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles in length, toward the west three and one-third miles in width, toward the east three and one-third miles in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles in length; the sanctuary of the LORD will be in the middle.
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42 Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.
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3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the LORD had instructed.
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5 Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.
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12 There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.
- Num 35:13-142 verses69%
13 These 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.
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20 The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.
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22 In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52½ feet in width; the four were all the same size.
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19 Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.
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4 Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east(including all of Syria) and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
- Ezek 42:7-82 verses68%
7 As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.
8 For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet long.
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4 The 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.
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15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
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10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side.
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55 They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.
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12 Then the border will continue down the Jordan River and its direction will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land by its borders that surround it.’”
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47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.
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2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.
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17 He measured the north side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.
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35 The circumference of the city will be six miles. The name of the city from that day forward will be:‘The LORD Is There.’”