Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 6:64
So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — The narrator records the completion of the Levitical allotment immediately after listing the Merarite clans' twelve cities, transitioning to the next tribal group's distribution.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַיִּתְּנוּ (va-yit-tə-nū) translates as “they gave,” acting on the direct object אֶת־ הָעָרִים (’et-hā-ʿārîm, “the cities”) alongside מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶם (migərešêhem, “their pasturelands”).
The thread — This transaction mirrors the tribal allocations detailed in Joshua 21:3 and Joshua 21:41, where Israelite inheritances were systematically divided to provide urban and grazing property to the Levites.
Why it lands — The verse documents the physical transfer of land rights from the tribal inheritances to the priestly tribe, requiring the reader to track how the abstract Levitical provision becomes concrete property distribution.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
Cross-references
- Joshua 21:41 For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
- Joshua 21:3 So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
- Numbers 35:1 Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho: