Numbers 35:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ You are to apportion the towns that you will be giving the Israelis according to the relative size of the tribe. Take a larger portion from those larger in number and a lesser portion from those fewer in number. Each is to set aside towns for the descendants of Levi proportional to the size of their inheritance that they receive.”

Appointment of Cities of Refuge

⁹ Then the Lord told Moses, ¹⁰ “Tell the Israelis that when they have crossed the Jordan River into the land of Canaan,