Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.

New American Standard Bible

The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.

King James Version

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

International Standard Version

The towns are to be reserved for their dwelling places and the grazing lands are to be reserved for their cattle, livestock, and all their animals.

A Conservative Version

And they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

American Standard Version

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

Amplified

The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their livestock.

Bible in Basic English

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

Darby Translation

And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

Julia Smith Translation

And the cities were to them to dwell in; and their areas shall be for their cattle, and for their horses, and for all their beasts.

King James 2000

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle, and for their livestock, and for all their animals.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals.

Modern King James verseion

And they shall have the cities to live in. And their open lands shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their animals.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The cities shall be for them to dwell in, and the suburbs for their cattle, possession and all manner beasts of theirs.

NET Bible

Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

New Heart English Bible

The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

The Emphasized Bible

So shall the cities be theirs, to dwell in, - and their pasture lands, shall, ye for their cattle and for their goods and for all their beasts.

Webster

And they shall have the cities to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

World English Bible

The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the cities
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

and the suburbs
מגרשׁה מגרשׁ 
Migrash 
Usage: 114

בּהמה 
B@hemah 
Usage: 190

רכשׁ רכוּשׁ 
R@kuwsh 
Usage: 28

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Cities For The Levites

2 “Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities. 3 The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals. 4 The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall 500 yards on every side.


Cross References

Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) with its surrounding pasturelands in the hill country of Judah. Arba was the father of Anak.

2 Chronicles 11:14

for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of Yahweh.

Ezekiel 45:2

In this area there will be a square section for the sanctuary, 875 by 875 feet, with 87½ feet of open space all around it.

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