that serve the city Those who render inhabit(Hitz.) consider that the verse states directly who the inhabitants of the city shall be: "and as for the inhabitants of the city, they shall inhabit it (reading fem.) out of all the tribes of Israel." On the other supposition: "and they that till the city shall till it (the domain of land) out of all the tribes of Israel." This rendering also states, though indirectly, that the city shall be common to all the tribes of Israel, and that whoever comes to sojourn there shall live by the land belonging to the city. However the words be translated there is no ref. to twoclasses of persons citizens and labourers.

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