Numbers 35:1-8
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Cities for the Levites
35 The Lord again spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho:(A) 2 ‘Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.(B) 3 The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals. 4 The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall half a kilometre[a] on every side. 5 Measure a kilometre[b] outside the city for the east side, a kilometre for the south side, a kilometre for the west side, and a kilometre for the north side, with the city in the centre. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.
6 ‘The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge,(C) which you will provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give forty-two other cities.(D) 7 The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands.(E) 8 Of the cities that you give from the Israelites’ territory, you should take more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.(F) Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.’
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