Numbers 35:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:

⁵ Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.

⁶ And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities,