The cities of the Levites within the possession of the Israelites were in all forty-eight cities with their grazing lands.
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Thus, the sons of Israel gave cities with their outlands to the Levites.
They will teach Jacob Your judgments and Israel Your law. They will put incense before You and the whole burnt offerings on your altar.
So according to the word of the Lord, out of their inheritance the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their grazing lands.
So twelve cities were allotted for the descendants of Merari according to their clans (the remaining Levite clans).
Each of these cities had grazing lands surrounding them. It was this way with all these cities.