1 In the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,
2 “Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land around the cities.
3 These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.
4 The pasture land is to extend outward from the city walls five hundred yards in each direction,
5 so that there is a square area measuring one thousand yards on each side, with the city in the middle.