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Joshua 21:41

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The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands.

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Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

So the Israelites gave the Levites these towns and their pasturelands.

He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.

Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.