1. Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.
2. They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The Lord commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”
3. The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of the Lord, these cities with their pasture lands.