Numbers 35:4

The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.

Note 1,000 cubits is approximately 1,500 feet or 457.2 meters.

BSB · Berean Standard Bible

And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

KJV · King James Version

“The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

Note A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

WEB · World English Bible

And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

ASV · American Standard Version

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thousand cubits: The Septuagint reads [dischilious pecheis] "two thousand cubits," as in the following verse; but this reading is not acknowledged by any other ancient version, except the Coptic, nor by any of the MSS. collated by Kennicott and De Rossi. Various modes have been proposed for reconciling the accounts in these two verses, which appear in general to require full as much explanation as the text itself. The explanation of Maimonides is the only one that is intelligible, and appears perfectly satisfactory. "The suburbs," says he, "of the cities are expressed in the law to be 3,000 cubits on every side, from the wall of the city and outwards. The first 1,000 cubits are the suburbs; and the 2,000, which they measured without the suburbs, were for fields and vineyards." The whole therefore, of the city, suburbs, fields, and vineyards, may be represented by the following diagram:-- ÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ ½ Fields and vineyards. ½ ½ ½ ½ ÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ Suburbs. ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ City. ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ÂÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1,000 Cubits ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ÂÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ ½ ½ ½ ½ 2,000 Cubits ½ ÂÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ; Numbers 35:4