Cities for the Levites

1And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

2Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites, from the inheritance of their possession, cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.

3The cities shall be for them to live in, and their pasturelands shall be for their livestock, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

4And the pasture lands of the cities that you give to the Levites shall be from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.

5You shall measure outside the city: the east side, two thousand cubits; the south side, two thousand cubits; the west side, two thousand cubits; and the north side, two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle. This shall be for them the pasture lands of the cities.

6And the cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee there; and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

7All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, them and their pasturelands.

8And the cities that you give from the possession of the sons of Israel—from the many you shall increase, and from the few you shall diminish. Each one, according to his inheritance that they inherit, shall give some of his cities to the Levites.