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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 21:2

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, etc.] Where the tabernacle was fixed, at or near which the above persons met to cast lots for the division of the land to the seven tribes that had not received their inheritance: saying, the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle; this command is extant in (<043502>Numbers 35:2-8).
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