“For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.”
Joshua 21:41 (BSB)
Context Reading
39Heshbon, and Jazer — four cities in all, together with their pasturelands. 40In all, twelve cities were allotted to the clans of Merari, the remaining Levite clans. 41For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites. 42Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities. 43Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.