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.