You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.
⛓ Read Numbers 35 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The distance from Olivet is 'a Sabbath day's journey,' a halakhic measure derived from the limits set around the Levitical cities and the camp (cf. the 2,000-cubit reckoning) and the Sabbath-rest command. Volume: the phrase reflects later legal interpretation rather than a quotation, but its scriptural root is the camp/city boundary measures. Thematic coherence modest. Faint, halakhic background note.
Low confidenceMeasuring/marking out sacred and civic space; very faint conceptual contribution to the measuring-for-allotment imagery. Included for maximal coverage.
Low confidence