Numbers 35:4-6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁴ The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall 500 yards^[a] on every side. ⁵ Measure 1,000 yards^[b] outside the city for the east side, 1,000 yards^[c] for the south side, 1,000 yards^[d] for the west side, and 1,000 yards^[e] for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.

⁶ “The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge,^(A) which you must provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give 42 other cities.^(B)