Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities. 3 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. 4 “The pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits around.

Cross References

Joshua 21:11

Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.

2 Chronicles 11:14

For the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:2

Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its open space round about.

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