Numbers 35:1-8 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, saying,

2 “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and pastureland around the cities you? shall give the Levites.

3 And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle, and for their herds, and for all their animals.

4 And the pasturelands of the cities that you? shall give the Levites is from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around.

5 And you? shall measure outside of the city on the east side two thousand by the cubit, and on the side of the Negev two thousand by the cubit, and on the west side two thousand by the cubit, and on the north side two thousand by the cubit; and the city is in the middle. This shall be unto them as pasturelands for the cities.

6 And among the cities that you? shall give to the Levites are six cities of refuge, which you? shall give for the fleeing there of the manslayer. And to these you? shall add forty-two cities.

7 And all the cities that you? will give to the Levites are forty-eight cities—these and their pasturelands.

8 And the cities that you? give from the possession of the sons of Israel—from the larger you? shall give many and from the smaller you? shall give few—each in proportion to the inheritance that each receives should be given of its cities to the Levites.”