[35:1] In the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,
[35:2] “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.
[35:3] 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.
[35:4] The pasture land is to extend outward from the city walls five hundred yards in each direction,
[35:5] so that there is a square area measuring one thousand yards on each side, with the city in the middle.
[35:6] 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
[35:7] with their pasture land, making a total of forty-eight.
[35:8] The number of Levite cities in each tribe is to be determined according to the size of its territory.”