Numbers 35:3
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
The towns shall be theirs to live in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle, for their livestock, and for all their animals.

Contemporary English Version
That way, the Levites will have towns to live in and pastures for their animals.

New American Bible
The cities will be for them to dwell in, and the pasture lands will be for their cattle, their flocks, and all their other animals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:

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Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:

Joshua 21:11 The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.

2 Chronicles 11:14 Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over to Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off, from executing the priestly office to the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:2 And there shall be for the sanctuary on every side five hundred by five hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions, 3Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:4Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:…
Cross References
Numbers 35:2
Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

Numbers 35:4
Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:

Deuteronomy 18:6
If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which the Lord shall choose,

Numbers 35:2
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