Numbers 35:13

13 The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:13

And of these cities which ye shall give
Of the forty eight cities they were to give to the Levites, ( Numbers 35:7 ) ,

six cities shall ye have for refuge;
which, I think, makes it clear, that not all the forty eight cities were for refuge, only six of them.

Numbers 35:13 In-Context

11 you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.

12 The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment.

13 The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge.

14 You will give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge.

15 To the {Israelites}, to the alien, and to the temporary resident in their midst there will be these six cities as a refuge to which anyone who unintentionally kills a person may flee.