All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel are forty and eight cities, and their suburbs.
Cursed is their anger, for it is fierce, And their wrath, for it is sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel.
And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.
They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.
And the sons of Israel give to the Levites, out of their inheritance, at the command of Jehovah, these cities and their suburbs:
All the cities for the sons of Merari, for their families, who are left of the families of the Levites--their lot is twelve cities.
These cities are each city and its suburbs round about it; so to all these cities.