Joshua 21:1-3

Lexham English Bible

The Allotment of the Levites

21 Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites.^{[a] 2} And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.” ³ So, by command of Yahweh,^[b] the Israelites^[c] gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands from their inheritance.