So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.
In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.
at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.”
The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin.
The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands.