1. Adonai spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho saying,
2. “Command Bnei-Yisrael to give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possessions cities in which to live. They are also to give the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
3. Thus they will have cities to live in and pastures for their cattle, flocks and all their livestock.
4. The pastures you give the Levites will extend out from the walls around the cities for 1,000 cubits.
5. You are to measure outside the cities 2,000 cubits on the east side, 2,000 cubits on the south side, on the west side 2,000 cubits, and on the north side 2,000 cubits. These are to be pasturelands for the cities.
6. “Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be cities of refuge, to which anyone who kills anyone may flee. Besides these, you are to give the Levites 42 more cities.