Numbers 35:7

7 forty-eight towns in all, together with their pastures.

Numbers 35:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:7

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be
forty eight cities
Of these forty eight cities, their names, and what tribes they were in, and which of them were particularly cities of refuge, an account is given in ( Joshua 21:10-37 ) :

them shall ye give, with their suburbs;
according to the dimensions before prescribed.

Numbers 35:7 In-Context

5 The outside borders of the pasture are to measure three thousand feet on each of the four sides - east, south, west, and north - with the town at the center. Each city will be supplied with pasture.
6 "Six of these towns that you give the Levites will be asylum-cities to which anyone who accidentally kills another person may flee for asylum. In addition, you will give them forty-two other towns -
7 forty-eight towns in all, together with their pastures.
8 The towns that you give the Levites from the common inheritance of the People of Israel are to be taken in proportion to the size of each tribe - many towns from a tribe that has many, few from a tribe that has few."
9 God spoke to Moses:
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