Numbers 35:3

3 The cities will be theirs in which to live. Their pastures will be for their cattle, their possessions, and all their animals.

Numbers 35:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:3

And cities shall they have to dwell in
For them and their families, and indeed for nothing else, they having no trades nor worldly business to carry on in them:

and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle;
for stables and stalls to put them up in, and for barns and storehouses to lay in provender for them:

and for their goods;
where to bestow them, as the increase of their fields, oliveyards, and vineyards, see ( Luke 12:18 Luke 12:19 )

and for all their beasts;
or living creatures; or "for their whole life" ^F26; or livelihood, whatsoever was for the support of it; the Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation, for all their necessities; and so Jarchi.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mtyh lkl) "ad vitam ipsorum". Vid. Drusium.

Numbers 35:3 In-Context

1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the Moab plains by the Jordan across from Jericho:

2 Command the Israelites that they give cities from their inherited property to the Levites in which to live. You will also give the Levites pastures around their cities.

3 The cities will be theirs in which to live. Their pastures will be for their cattle, their possessions, and all their animals.

4 The pastures of the cities that you must give to the Levites will extend from the wall of the city outward for one thousand five hundred feet in all directions.

5 You will measure outside the city on the east side three thousand feet, on the south side three thousand feet, on the west side three thousand feet, and on the north side three thousand feet, with the city in the middle. These will be their cities' pastures.