Joshua 21:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Out of their own heritage, according to the command of the Lord, the Israelites gave the Levites the following cities with their pasture lands.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their fury so fierce, and their rage so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob, disperse them throughout Israel.

Numbers 35:7

a total of forty-eight cities with their pasture lands which you will assign to the Levites.

Joshua 21:2

at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, and said to them, “The Lord commanded, through Moses, that cities be given us to dwell in, with pasture lands for our livestock.”

Joshua 21:4

When the first lot among the Levites fell to the clans of the Kohathites, the descendants of Aaron the priest obtained by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.

Joshua 21:41

Thus the total number of cities within the territory of the Israelites which, with their pasture lands, belonged to the Levites, was forty-eight.