The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasture 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.
So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
They shall teach Jacob thy ordinances, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thy altar.
So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasture lands out of their inheritance.
As for the cities of the several Merarite families, that is, the remainder of the families of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.
These cities had each its pasture lands round about it; so it was with all these cities.