With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.
So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,
And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers. And they possessed it and dwelt in it.
And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribes of Ruben and or Gad and of Zabulon, twelve cities.