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Joshua 21:2

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at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.”

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“ ‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

no bag for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his keep.

Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.

So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The country was brought under their control,

So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance: