Joshua 21:40

New American Bible - revised edition

The cities allotted to the Merarite clans, the last of the Levites, were therefore twelve in all.

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Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.

Thus the total number of cities within the territory of the Israelites which, with their pasture lands, belonged to the Levites, was forty-eight.

From the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun, the clans of the Merarites obtained twelve cities.