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Cities for the Priests and Levites

21 Then the leading fathers[a] of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leading fathers of the tribes of the people of Israel. When they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, they said, “The Lord commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, together with their pasturelands for our livestock.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 21:1 Fathers is a common title for the ruling elders among the Israelites.