So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
So the total number of cities you must give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, and you must give them along with their surrounding pasturelands.
The writer is instructing that the Levites should receive forty-eight cities total, complete with grazing land around them.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Numbers, God was providing detailed instructions to the Israelites as they prepared to settle in the Promised Land after their exodus from Egypt. The Levites, who served as priests and handled the sacred duties of the tabernacle, were not given a specific tribal territory like the other tribes, so God commanded that they receive 48 cities, including surrounding suburbs, from the other tribes' lands to ensure they had places to live and pasture for their livestock.
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