Then the Levites, who did not receive an allotment as per prior arrangements, come to the leaders and remind them of the Lord’s command to provide towns for them to live in with pastureland for their livestock. So, in accordance with Numbers 35:1–8, each tribe assigns a number of towns with surrounding pastureland to the Levites (21:1–42). Note that these towns are not to be construed as “inheritance” for the Levites because the Lord has already ordained that they are not to receive any inheritance in the form of land that can be passed on permanently to their descendants (Num. 18:23–24; Deut. 18:1–2). The Levitical towns are therefore merely towns for them to live in where their pasturing rights are guaranteed. In fact, 21:11–12 suggests that these towns are not even exclusively reserved…