Joshua 21:1

The Passion Translation

While the people of Israel camped at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, the ancestral heads of the Levites went to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of all of the tribes of Israel and said, “Yahweh instructed through Moses for you to give us cities to live in and pasturelands around the cities for our livestock.”

Cross References

Joshua 14:1

Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders divided the land west of the Jordan among the people of Israel as their inheritance.

Joshua 17:4

They came before the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun and the leaders, and said, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.” So according to Yahweh’s commandment, he gave an inheritance to them as he did to their uncles.

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath so relentless. I will divide your descendants throughout Jacob’s territory and scatter them throughout Israel.