Numbers 35:4
Good News Translation
The pasture land is to extend outward from the city walls five hundred yards in each direction,

New Revised Standard Version
The pasture lands of the towns, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the town outward a thousand cubits all around.

New American Bible
The pasture lands of the cities to be assigned the Levites shall extend a thousand cubits out from the city walls in every direction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:

thousand cubits.

3000 cubits on every side, from the wall of the city and outwards. the first

1000 cubits are the suburbs; and the

2000, which they measured without the suburbs, were for fields and vineyards. The whole therefore, of the city, suburbs, fields, and vineyards, may be represented by the following diagram:--- Fields and vineyards.

Suburbs

City

1000 Cubits

2000 Cubits

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
3Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts: 4Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:5Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.…
Cross References
Numbers 35:3
Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:

Numbers 35:5
Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.

Numbers 35:3
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