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Command the people of Israel to give the Levites cities[a] to live in from the territory assigned to them as their possession. They will also give the Levites the pasturelands around those cities. The Levites will then have cities to live in. Their pasturelands will be for their cattle, their flocks and herds, and all their other animals.

The pasturelands of the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will extend out from the wall of the city 500 yards[b] in all directions.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:2 Some of these settlements were smaller than what is usually denoted by the English word city.
  2. Numbers 35:4 Literally 1000 cubits. One cubit is about 18 inches.