Numbers 35:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall measure, outside the town, for the east side two thousand cubits, for the south side two thousand cubits, for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, with the town in the middle; this shall belong to them as pastureland for their towns.

Cross References

Numbers 35:4

The pasturelands of the towns, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the town outward a thousand cubits all around.

Numbers 35:6

“The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two towns.

Deuteronomy 18:6

“If a Levite leaves any of your towns, from wherever he has been residing in Israel, and comes to the place that the Lord will choose (and he may come whenever he wishes),