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book_id: NUM

label: NET study note

text: This section has two main parts, the Levitical cities (vv. 1-8 ) and the Cities of Refuge (vv. 9-34 ).


text: The precise nature of the layout described here is not altogether clear. V. 4 speaks of the distance from the wall as being 500 yards; v. 5 , however, describes measurements of 1,000 yards. Various proposals have been made in order to harmonize vv. 4 and 5 . P. J. Budd, Numbers (WBC), 376, makes the following suggestion: “It may be best to assume that the cubits of the Levitical pasture lands are cubit frontages of land – in other words on each side of the city there was a block of land with a frontage of two thousand cubits (v 5 ), and a depth of 1000 cubits (v 4 ).”