“And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.”
and said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, 'The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our cattle' — The Levites' claim rests on Mosaic law (Numbers 35:1-8). The invocation of Moses's authority grounds their petition in precedent; Mosaic covenant, though mediated through Joshua, retains binding force. The request for 'pasturelands' (migrāšîm, literally 'open spaces for driving cattle') acknowledges that Levitical cities require agricultural support alongside urban settlement.
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