6. Now these are the cities you will give to the Levites: the six cities of asylum which you must establish for the homicide to run to, and in addition forty-two other cities—
7. a total of forty-eight cities with their pasture lands which you will assign to the Levites.
8. In assigning the cities from what the Israelites possess, take more from a larger group and fewer from a smaller one, so that each will cede cities to the Levites in proportion to the heritage which it receives.
9. The Lord spoke to Moses:
10. Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you go across the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11. select for yourselves cities to serve as cities of asylum, where a homicide who has killed someone inadvertently may flee.