For the Levites had abandoned their pasture land and their property. And they came to Judah and to Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from acting as priests to Jehovah.
Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites cities to live in, from the land of their possessions, and you shall give to the Levites open land for the cities.
And if a Levite comes from one of your gates of all Israel, there where he has been living, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Jehovah shall choose,