For the Levites left their lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had discharged them from performing the priest’s service unto the LORD:
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the open land thereof.
Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give also to the Levites open country for the cities round about them.
And the open country of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the open country thereof round about it.