Numbers 35:5

"“The pasture lands 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."

Key Reflection

This verse establishes a clear boundary for the Levites' pastoral needs, ensuring they have ample space beyond the city walls to graze their animals. This provision symbolizes the importance of the Levites in the community, granting them both practical and spiritual sustenance within the broader framework of the Israelite settlement system.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

From without the city -Omit “from.” The demarcation here intended would run parallel to the wall of the city, outside which it was made. To guard against any restrictions of area, due to such causes as the irregular forms of the cities or the physical obstacles of the ground, it was ordained that the suburb should, alike on north, south, east, and west, present, at a distance of one thousand cubits (or, nearly one-third of a mile) from the wall, a front not less than two thousand cubits in length; and, by joining the extremities of these measured fronts according to the nature of the ground, a

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