When they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented them in front of the tabernacle.

On the sixth day it was Eliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the sons of Gad;

and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings totaled twenty-four bulls, all the rams, sixty, the male goats, sixty, and the male lambs one year old, sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am included, are six hundred thousand on foot! Yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’

‘Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

sixty-one thousand donkeys,

the cattle were thirty-six thousand, from which the Lord’s tribute tax was seventy-two;

the donkeys were 30,500, from which the Lord’s tribute tax was sixty-one;

and the captive people were sixteen thousand, from whom the Lord’s tribute tax was thirty-two persons.

thirty-six thousand cattle,

and the captive people were sixteen thousand—

Cities of Refuge

The cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall provide for the one who commits manslaughter to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

So the cities which you are to provide shall be six cities of refuge for you.

These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreign resident among them; so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.