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Numbers 35:3

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The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

KJV

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

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This verse in Numbers 35

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the pasturelands will be for their herds

on Numbers 35:3-5

Verse 4 measures a thousand cubits and verse 5 two thousand, which Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read as a line from the first zone's edge. John Gill reports Jewish writers giving the first thousand to cattle and the next two thousand to fields and vineyards.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), a thousand cubits from the wall was allowed them for out-houses to keep their cattle in, and then two thousand more for fields to graze their cattle in,

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The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָי֧וּand they will belong

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • הֶֽעָרִ֛יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • לָהֶ֖םto <the> them

    lahem

  • לָשָׁ֑בֶתto dwell in

    lashavetH3427 →1079 times

  • וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶ֗םand pasture lands their

    umigresheihemH4054 →119 times

  • יִהְי֤וּthey will be

    yihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • לִבְהֶמְתָּם֙for cattle their

    livhemtamH929 →190 times

  • וְלִרְכֻשָׁ֔םand for property their

    velirkhushamH7399 →

  • וּלְכֹ֖לand for every

    ulekholH3605 →5413 times

  • חַיָּתָֽם׃animal their

    chaiyatamH2416 →498 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 11:14

    For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 13:9

      But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now…

    • Numbers 35:2–5

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

    • 1 Kings 12:28–33

      After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out…

    • Joshua 21:20–42

      The remaining Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted these cities:

    • 1 Kings 13:33

      Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a…

  • Through

    Joshua 21:11

    They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:55

      They were given Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands.

    • Luke 1:39

      In those days Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,

  • Through

    Ezekiel 45:2

    Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 42:16–20

      With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 35 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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