² “Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in^(A) from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands^(B) around the towns. ³ Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.^(C)

⁴ for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim.^(A) The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.^(B)