Joshua 21:40

Modern English Version

So twelve cities were allotted for the descendants of Merari according to their clans (the remaining Levite clans).

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Heshbon, and Jazer, together with the grazing lands of each: four cities in all.

The cities of the Levites within the possession of the Israelites were in all forty-eight cities with their grazing lands.

Descendants of Merari by their clans received an allotment of twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.