Joshua 21:3

Modern English Version

So according to the word of the Lord, out of their inheritance the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their grazing lands.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Numbers 35:7

So all the cities which you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities. You will give them with their pasturelands.

Joshua 21:2

At Shiloh in the land of Canaan they said to them, “Through Moses the Lord commanded that we be given cities to live in, along with grazing lands for our livestock.”

Joshua 21:4

The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites, so the Levites who were descendants of Aaron received an allotment of thirteen cities from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

Joshua 21:41

The cities of the Levites within the possession of the Israelites were in all forty-eight cities with their grazing lands.