Joshua 21:3
Good News Translation
So in accordance with the LORD's command the people of Israel gave the Levites certain cities and pasture lands out of their own territories.

New Revised Standard Version
So by command of the LORD the Israelites gave to the Levites the following towns and pasture lands out of their inheritance.

Contemporary English Version
Since the LORD had said this, the leaders of the other Israelite tribes agreed to give some of the towns and pastures from their tribal lands to Levi.

New American Bible
Out of their own heritage, according to the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites the following cities with their pasture lands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.

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And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.

unto the Levites

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:8-10 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction: . . .

1 Chronicles 6:54-81 And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot. . . .

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
2And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle. 3And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.4And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin, thirteen cities.…
Cross References
Joshua 21:2
And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.

Joshua 21:4
And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

1 Chronicles 6:64
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

Joshua 21:2
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