Numbers 35:1-8

Good News Translation

The Cities Assigned to the Levites

35 ^(A)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 around 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 outward from the city walls five hundred yards in each direction, ⁵ so that there is a square area measuring one thousand yards on each side, with the city in the middle. ⁶ You are to give the Levites six cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally. In addition, give them forty-two other cities ⁷ with their pasture land, making a total of forty-eight. ⁸ The number of Levite cities in each tribe is to be determined according to the size of its territory.”