SUBURBS

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• Numbers 35:3

  They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.

• Numbers 35:4

  “The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

• Numbers 35:5

  You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.

• Joshua 14:4

  For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.