Joshua 21:2 - Easy To Read Version

² This happened at the town of Shiloh in the land of Canaan. The Levite rulers said to them, “The Lord gave Moses a command. He commanded that you give us towns to live in. And he commanded that you give us fields where our animals can eat.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² and they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² They said to them at Shiloh in Canaan, The Lord commanded through Moses that we should be given cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands (suburbs) for our cattle.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Jehovah commanded by Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

Common English Bible

² They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan: “The LORD gave a command through Moses to give us cities to live in and their pasturelands for our cattle.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And they spoke to them at Shiloh, in the land of Canaan, and they said, "The Lord instructed, by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given to us as habitations, with their suburbs to nourish our cattle."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.

Joshua 21:2 Cross References

Leviticus 25:32

“But about the cities of the Levites: The Levites can buy back their houses at any time in the cities that belong to them.

Matthew 10:10

Don’t carry a bag. Take for your trip only the clothes and shoes you are wearing. Don’t take a walking stick. A worker should be given the things he needs.

Galatians 6:6

The person who is learning the teaching of God should share all the good things he has with the person who is teaching him.

Joshua 14:5

The Lord had told Moses how to divide the land among the family groups of Israel. The people of Israel divided the land the way the Lord had commanded.

Joshua 18:1

All of the Israelite people gathered together at Shiloh. At that place they set up the Meeting Tent. [63] The people of Israel controlled that country. They had defeated all the enemies in that land.

Joshua 21:3

So the people of Israel obeyed this command from the Lord. They gave the Levite people these towns and the land around them for their animals: