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.
6. Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.
7. “So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.
8. The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.
9. Then the Lord spoke to Moses:
10. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan River into the land of Canaan,