Quotes about Cities
“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
- Numbers 35:2
The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
- Numbers 35:3
The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
- Numbers 35:4
Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Numbers 35:6
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
- Numbers 35:7
The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”
- Numbers 35:8
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:11
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:13
Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:14
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:15
We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
- Deuteronomy 2:35
But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
- Deuteronomy 2:37