of the tribe of Levi. So TEV has the priests, since “the Levitical priest” implies that there were priests who were not Levites (but see TEV in 8:33). It is important in translation not to convey the false notion that some priests were not Levites, as “the Levitical priests” might suggest. The Hebrew is in fact literally “the priests, the Levites,” in which “the Levites” is an appositional. The term was important to the final editor of the Joshua text, but it is quite capable of being misunderstood
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