Bible Verses

Cities of Refuge The Lord spoke to Moses and said:

You shall take these towns from the property of the Israelites, choosing more towns from tribes with larger landholdings and fewer from tribes with smaller lands. Each tribe will give towns to the Levites proportional to the land they own.

Altogether, you will give forty-eight towns to the Levites, along with their pasturelands.

The towns you give to the Levites will include the six towns of refuge where someone who causes another’s death can escape, and you will also give them forty-two additional towns.

forming a square area of 1,000 yards on each side with the town at the center.

The pasture around the towns you give to the Levites shall extend 500 yards in each direction from the walls of the towns,

They shall live in the towns and tend their cattle and animals in the pastureland nearby.

 “Tell the people of Israel to give the Levites towns from their property to live in, including surrounding pastureland.

Levitical Cities The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan opposite Jericho. He said: