2 “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities. 3 The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock. 4 The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
Numbers 35:2–4
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