The huge number of Levites who will serve God are provided for by the sons of Israel. Their food is from the offerings to God and in Chapter 35 of Numbers God commands that they are provided with 48 cities, including 6 cities of refuge, and areas of grazing land around them of a specific measurement, two thousand cubits east, south, west and north of each city.

Imagine that a nation was so served by those whom God calls His how great the influence of Godly people would be on the whole community of the nation!

The provision of cities of refuge is unique among civilisations: that someone who has killed a person unawares, without enmity, hatred or lying in wait, may flee to and must remain there until he faces judgement by the company, as to whether he is a murderer or a manslayer. The one found to have killed without planning in advance ...