1. In the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,
2. “Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land round the cities.
3. These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.
4. The pasture land is to extend outwards from the city walls 450 metres in each direction,