Numbers 35:2-8

CLV(i) 2 Instruct the sons of Israel so that they give to the Levites, from the allotment of their holding, cities to dwell in; and by the cities, common pasture land around them shall you give to the Levites. 3 The cities will be theirs to dwell in, and their common lands shall be for their domestic beasts, for their goods and for all their animals. 4 The common lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites will extend from the sidewall of the city outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 You will measure off outside the city on the eastward edge two thousand cubits, on the southward edge two thousand cubits, on the western edge two thousand cubits and on the northern edge two thousand cubits with the city in the middle. This shall be their common lands for the cities. 6 And of the cities which you shall give to the Levites six will be asylum cities which you shall give for the manslayer to flee there. And along with them you shall give forty-two other cities. 7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, these and their common pasture lands. 8 And the cities which you shall give will be from the holding of the sons of Israel:from the numerous one you shall increase and from the little one you shall decrease; each tribe according to the bidding of its allotment which they are allotting shall give from its cities to the Levites.