Numbers 35:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Numbers 35:4

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

Numbers 35:6

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.

Deuteronomy 18:6

And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;