Numbers 35:3

World English Bible (2000)

The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 21:11 : 11 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.
  • 2 Chr 11:14 : 14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh;
  • Ezek 45:2 : 2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square all around; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 35:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

    2 "Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.

  • Num 35:4-9
    6 verses
    81%

    4 "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

    5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

    6 "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

    7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

    8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites."

    9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Josh 21:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for our livestock."

    3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.

  • Lev 25:31-34
    4 verses
    77%

    31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

    32 "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

    33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

    34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

  • Deut 3:19
    77%

    19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

  • Josh 14:4
    74%

    4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.

  • Lev 25:7
    74%

    7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Num 35:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

    14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

  • Josh 21:41-42
    2 verses
    73%

    41 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.

    42 Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It was this way with all these cities.

  • 1 Chr 6:64
    73%

    64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.

  • Jer 33:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

    13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 31:24
    72%

    24 Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.

  • Num 32:4
    72%

    4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."

  • Num 32:16
    72%

    16 They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

  • Ezek 45:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

    5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty rooms.

    6 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

  • Deut 19:2
    71%

    2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

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

    55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it;

    56 but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

  • Isa 34:17
    71%

    17 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

  • Ezek 48:15
    71%

    15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

  • Num 31:30
    71%

    30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."

  • Num 34:2
    70%

    2 "Command the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),

  • Josh 21:35
    70%

    35 Dimnah with its suburbs, and Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.

  • Zeph 2:6
    70%

    6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

  • Deut 21:3
    70%

    3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

  • Ps 69:35
    69%

    35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

  • Deut 28:3
    69%

    3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

  • Deut 20:15
    69%

    15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Num 32:26
    69%

    26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

  • Num 15:2
    69%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

  • Deut 18:8
    69%

    8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

  • Jer 6:3
    69%

    3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."

  • Deut 2:35
    69%

    35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.