Read: and five …, and ten … shall the Levites have. (The Keri is unnecessary).

for twenty chambers Probably with LXX.: for cities to dwell in. Cf. same words Numbers 35:2; Joshua 14:4. In Ezekiel 45:6 Jerusalem, with its suburbs, is assigned a tract of land only half of this given to the Levites.

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