Numbers 35:4-6

Christian Standard Bible

⁴ The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall five hundred yards^[a] on every side. ⁵ Measure a thousand yards^[b] outside the city for the east side, a thousand yards for the south side, a thousand yards for the west side, and a thousand yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.

⁶ “The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge,^(A) which you will provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give forty-two other cities.^(B)