Numbers 35:5

New English Translation

“You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

Cross References

Numbers 35:4

The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

Numbers 35:6

Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.

Deuteronomy 18:6

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses