The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
4. And the suburbs of the cities. A discrepancy here appears, from whence a question arises; for Moses first limits the suburbs to a thousand cubits from the city in every direction; and then seems to extend them to two thousand.
And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites,.... The dimensions and bounds of them were not left to the Israelites, to give what ground they pleased for this purpose, but were fixed to what length they should be: these shall reach from the walls of the city, and outward, a thousand cubits round about; which was half a sabbath day's...
And the suburbs of the cities - shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.