Numbers 35:5 meaning and explanation
You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
Numbers 35:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is instructing Moses on the plains of Moab, before Israel crosses the Jordan, about land to be set aside for the Levites, who receive no tribal inheritance of their own. Verse 5 expands the pasturelands around each Levite city: a further two thousand cubits measured outward on all four sides, with the city at the center.
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