Joshua 21:1-3

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Towns for the Levites

21 The heads of the ·Levite families [^Lfathers of the Levites] went to talk to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the ·families [fathers] of all the tribes of Israel. ² At Shiloh in the land of Canaan, they said to them, “The Lord commanded Moses that you give us towns where we may live and pastures for our animals.” ³ So the Israelites obeyed this command of the Lord and gave the Levite people these towns and pastures ·for their own land [^Lfrom their own inheritance/possessions]: