All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, and Israel thy law. They shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
All [these were] the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them. Thus it was with all these cities.
And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of LORD, these cities with their suburbs: