Numbers 35:7
 Numbers 35:7 
New International Version (©2011)
In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.

New Living Translation (©2007)
In all, forty-eight towns with the surrounding pastureland will be given to the Levites.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be 48, along with their pasturelands.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The total number of towns that you are to give to the descendants of Levi is to be 48 towns, including grazing lands surrounding these towns.

NET Bible (©2006)
"So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So you will give a total of 48 cities with pastureland to the Levites.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall you give with their pasture lands.

American King James Version
So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall you give with their suburbs.

American Standard Version
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them'shall ye give with their suburbs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

Darby Bible Translation
all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.

English Revised Version
All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

Webster's Bible Translation
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

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

Young's Literal Translation
all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

35:1-8 The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them, but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For though the typical service of the tabernacle or temple was only in one place, the preaching of the word of God, and prayer and praise, were not thus confined. These cities were to be given out of each tribe. Each thus made a grateful acknowledgement to God. Each tribe had the benefit of the Levites dwelling amongst them, to teach them the knowledge of the Lord; thus no parts of the country were left to sit in darkness. The gospel provides that he who is taught in the word, should communicate to him that teaches, in all good things, Ga 6:6. We are to free God's ministers from distracting cares, and to leave them at leisure for the duties of their station; so that they may be wholly employed therein, and avail themselves of every opportunity, by acts of kindness, to gain the good-will of the people, and to draw their attention.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Forty and eight cities. The Levites numbered nearly 50,000 souls (see on Numbers 26:62), so that each Levitical city would have an average population of about 1000 to start with. There seems no sufficient reason for supposing that they shared their towns with men of the surrounding tribe. Even if the provision made for their habitation was excessive at first (which does not appear), yet their rate of increase should have been exceptionally high, inasmuch as they were not liable to military service. It is possible that mystical reasons led to the selection of the number forty-eight (12 x 4, both typical of universality), but it is at least equally probable that it was determined by the actual numbers of the tribe.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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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Six Cities of Refuge
6And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them you shall add forty and two cities. 7So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall you give with their suburbs. 8And the cities which you shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many you shall give many; but from them that have few you shall give few: every one shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits. …

Numbers 35:2 "Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns.
Joshua 21:41 The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands.