Numbers - 35:7



7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

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All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them'shall ye give with their suburbs.
Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them.
that is, all together forty-eight with their suburbs.
Omnes urbes quas dabitis Levitis, erunt quadraginta octo urbes, ipsas et suburbana earum dabitis:

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

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