Cities for the Levites
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The Lord spoke to Moses in s the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
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t "Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
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The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.
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The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.
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And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.
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"The cities that you give to the Levites shall be u the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
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All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be v forty-eight, with their pasturelands.
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And as for the cities that you shall give w from the possession of the people of Israel, x from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites."
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Cross References
Numbers 22:1
Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
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Cross References
Joshua 14:3 - 4
For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
Joshua 21:2
And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.
Ezekiel 45:1 - 5
When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent.
Ezekiel 48:8 - 14
Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:13
And the cities that you give shall be your six ...
Deuteronomy 4:41 - 42
Then Moses set apart three cities in the east b...
Joshua 20:2
Say to the people of Israel, 'Appoint the citie...
Joshua 20:7 - 8
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill...
Joshua 21:3
So by command of the Lord the people of Israel ...
Joshua 21:13
And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they...
Joshua 21:21
To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge ...
Joshua 21:27
And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the...
Joshua 21:32
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Gal...
Joshua 21:36
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its ...
Joshua 21:38
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead w...
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Cross References
Joshua 21:41
The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.
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Cross References
Joshua 21:3
So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance.
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Cross References
Numbers 26:54
To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.
Numbers 33:54
You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
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