PASTURELAND — the open ground ringing a Levitical town, and by its own name the place animals are DRIVEN OUT to. ⭐ The lexicons build the noun on garash, to drive out or expel — the same verb that at Exodus 23:29-30, already on these pages, has Jehovah promise to DRIVE OUT the inhabitants of Canaan ‘little by little’, and that at Numbers 22:6 is exactly what Balak hires Balaam to accomplish. So the Levites’ cattle graze on ground whose name is the verb of dispossession. ⚠ Searched consonantally it stands in sixty-eight verses, the great majority of them the Levitical-town lists of Joshua 21 and 1 Chronicles 6 that carry out Numbers 35. ⚠ No two versions on the two shelves name it the same thing: ‘suburbs’ (KJV, ASV, Geneva 1599, Douay-Rheims — which in 1611 meant the open ground under a wall), ‘pasturelands’ (NIV, Living Bible), ‘pasture ground’ (NWT 1984) and ‘pastures’ (its 2013 revision), «ejidos» (both Reina-Valeras, the common land of a Spanish or Mexican village), «dehesa» (TNM 1987) and «campos de pasto» (TNM 2019), «campos de pastoreo» (NVI). → first discussed at Num 35:2