Numbers 35:3

3 These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other 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 In the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,

2 "Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land around the cities.

3 These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.

4 The pasture land is to extend outward from the city walls five hundred yards in each direction,

5 so that there is a square area measuring one thousand yards on each side, with the city in the middle.