March 28 (Numbers 35–36; Psalm 80; Acts 3)

Through the ESV Bible in a Year with Ray Ortlund

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 March 2026

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0:00.0	A reading from the Book of Numbers.
0:04.7	The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
0:10.1	Command of the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their
0:14.6	possession as cities for them to dwell in.
0:17.9	And you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
0:21.6	The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle,
0:27.6	and for their livestock, and for all their beasts.
0:30.6	The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the
0:35.6	wall of the city outward, a thousand cubits all around.
0:40.3	And you shall measure outside the city, on the east side, 2,000 cubits, and on the south side, 2,000
0:48.3	cubits, and on the west side 2,000 cubits, and on the north side 2,000 cubits, the city being in the middle.
0:57.2	This shall belong to them as pasture land for their cities.
1:01.7	The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge,
1:07.2	where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them, you shall give 42 cities.
1:15.2	All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be 48 with their pasture lands,
1:20.8	and as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel,
1:24.8	from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes
1:29.3	you shall take few. Each in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits shall give of its
1:36.0	cities to the Levites. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the people of Israel and say to them,
1:46.0	When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you that the
1:53.1	manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. The cities shall be for you a refuge from the Avenger that the manslayer may
2:03.3	not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. And the cities that you give
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