◄ Numbers 35:7 ►
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Good News Translation
with their pasture land, making a total of forty-eight.

New Revised Standard Version
The towns that you give to the Levites shall total forty-eight, with their pasture lands.

Contemporary English Version
so they will have a total of 48 towns with their surrounding pastures.

New American Bible
a total of forty-eight cities with their pasture lands which you will assign to the Levites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

Joshua 21:3-42 And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs. . . .

1 Chronicles 6:54-81 And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot. . . .

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
6And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities, 7That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.8And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.…
Cross References
Numbers 35:2
Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

Joshua 21:41
So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,

Numbers 35:6
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