⁵⁴ Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.

¹⁰ And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

² Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

³ These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

⁴ Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

⁵ The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

⁶ And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

⁷ Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

⁸ And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

³ And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

⁴ And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

⁵ The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁶ The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.

⁷ The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.

⁸ All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.

¹⁰ These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.