The Levitical cities were in a special manner the Lord’s; and therefore the places of refuge, where the manslayer might remain under the protection…

(6, 7, 8) And among the cities which you shall give ... — The construction of this verse is involved; or, rather, there i…

And among the cities which you shall give unto the Levites
The number of which is not yet expressed, but is afterwar…

The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For…