Bible Verses About Priests: Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence

And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:

Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:

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

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.

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,

That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.

And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities for refuge Hebron, and Lobna, and the suburbs thereof,

And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:

Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath with its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities throughout their families were thirteen.