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

thousand cubits.

3000 cubits on every side, from the wall of the city and outwards. the first

1000 cubits are the suburbs; and the

2000, which they measured without the suburbs, were for fields and vineyards. The whole therefore, of the city, suburbs, fields, and vineyards, may be represented by the following diagram:--- Fields and vineyards.

Suburbs

City

1000 Cubits

2000 Cubits

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
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:5Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.…
Cross References
Numbers 35:3
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:

Numbers 35:5
Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.

Lexicon
The pasturelands
וּמִגְרְשֵׁי֙ (ū·miḡ·rə·šê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4054: A suburb, the area around a, building, the margin of the sea

around the cities
הֶֽעָרִ֔ים (he·‘ā·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

you are to give
תִּתְּנ֖וּ (tit·tə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

the Levites
לַלְוִיִּ֑ם (lal·wî·yim)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi

[will extend]
וָח֔וּצָה (wā·ḥū·ṣāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

a thousand
אֶ֥לֶף (’e·lep̄)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 505: A thousand

cubits
אַמָּ֖ה (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

from the wall
מִקִּ֤יר (miq·qîr)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7023: A wall

on every side.
סָבִֽיב׃ (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around


Additional Translations
The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.And the suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outwards two thousand cubits round about.

And the suburbs of the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be from the walls of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.

And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits on all sides.

"The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

And the suburbs of the cities which ye give to the Levites are, from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about.
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