Joshua 21:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So by command of the Lord the Israelites gave to the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their inheritance.

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

The towns that you give to the Levites shall total forty-eight, with their pasturelands.

Joshua 21:2

they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given towns to live in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.”

Joshua 21:4

The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

Joshua 21:41

The towns of the Levites within the holdings of the Israelites were in all forty-eight towns with their pasturelands.