1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the Moabite plains by the Jordan near Jericho. He said:
2. “Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.
3. Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.
4. The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.
5. “You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.