Levitical city
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levitical-city-318-2682756
title:
Levitical city
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In the Hebrew Bible, the Levitical cities were 48 cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi, who were not allocated their own territorial land when the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Numbers 35:1-8 relates God's command to Moses to establish 48 cities for the Levites, of which six would also function as Cities of Refuge to which manslayers could flee. Each settlement was to comprise a walled city and the common land around it for pasture, measured radially as one thousand c
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Cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitical_city
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2023-11-12T22:27:33Z
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