{"id":1303,"verse_id":"NUM.35.1","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"NUM","chapter":35,"verse":1,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"35.1","text":"This section has two main parts, the Levitical cities (vv. 1-8 ) and the Cities of Refuge (vv. 9-34 ).","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Numbers%2035%3A1/1"} {"id":1304,"verse_id":"NUM.35.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"NUM","chapter":35,"verse":5,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"35.5","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: β€œIt 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 ).”","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Numbers%2035%3A5/3"}