1 Chronicles 6:64 “So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturela…”

1 Chronicles 6:64

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

World English Bible

The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities with their suburbes.

Darby Translation

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

Young's Literal Translation

And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

Bible in Basic English

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

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Cross references

“the children”

Joshua 21:41 Joshua 21:42

Joshua 21:41 · BSB

For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.

Joshua 21:42 · BSB

Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

“with their”

Numbers 35:2–5

Numbers 35:2–5 · BSB

“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.

Also

Joshua 21:3 Numbers 35:1–8

Joshua 21:3 · BSB

So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

Numbers 35:1–8 · BSB

Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

63The Merarites, according to their clans, were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

65They assigned by lot the cities named above from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

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