Thus the total number of cities within the territory of the Israelites which, with their pasture lands, belonged to the Levites, was forty-eight.
Cursed be their fury so fierce, and their rage so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob, disperse them throughout Israel.
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands.
They teach your ordinances to Jacob, your law to Israel. They bring incense to your nostrils, and burnt offerings to your altar.
Out of their own heritage, according to the command of the Lord, the Israelites gave the Levites the following cities with their pasture lands.
The cities allotted to the Merarite clans, the last of the Levites, were therefore twelve in all.
With each and every one of these cities went the pasture lands round about it.