Forty-eight Cities of the Levites

21 Then the heads of fathers’ households of (A)the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of fathers’ households of the tribes of the sons of Israel. And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “(B)The Lord commanded [a]through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 21:2 Lit by the hand of

Towns for the Levites(A)

21 Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel(B) at Shiloh(C) in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns(D) to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.”(E)

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