So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsAll the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.
all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC