6. “All the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.
7. All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands.
8. And the cities that you will give from the property of the Israelites, you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits.”
9. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
10. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11. you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.
12. The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment.