⁵ Measure a thousand yards^[a] 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) 7} The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands.^(C)