Study it in the app“and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “YHWH commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.””
and they spokeוַיְדַבְּרוּto themאֲלֵיהֶםat Shilohבְּשִׁלֹהin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Canaan,כְּנַעַןsaying,לֵאמֹר“YHWHיְהוָהcommandedצִוָּהthroughבְיַדMosesמֹשֶׁהto giveלָתֶתusלָנוּcitiesעָרִיםto live in,לָשָׁבֶתwith their pasturelandsוּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶןfor our livestock.”לִבְהֶמְתֵּנוּ
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “yedabru” appearsShiloh
See it on the mapWhere else “shilo” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appearsthrough
Literally "by the hand of": that person is the one who does it or carries it.
Where else “yad” appearsMoses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tet” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “arim” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “shavet” appearspasturelands
Open land around a city, used as pasture for the livestock.
Where else “migrshe” appearslivestock
A four-legged animal, above all farm animals.
Where else “vehemte” appearsThe command is in Numbers 35:1-8.
1Shiloh
Today: Khirbet Seilun (Tel Shiloh), West Bank
A town in the hills of Ephraim, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Jerusalem.
The tabernacle stood there in the days of Joshua and Eli (Josh 18:1; 1 Sam 1:3). Hannah prayed there, and Samuel was born (1 Sam 1:9-20).
2Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
1Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel,
2 · This verse (above)
3So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites, out of their inheritance, according to the command of YHWH, these cities and their pasturelands.
