Numbers 35:7

"So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

Joshua 21:3-42

So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.

1 Chronicles 6:54-81

These were the areas where Aaron's descendants lived: The following belonged to the Kohathite clan, for they received the first allotment:

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So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

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Joshua 21:3
So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.
1 Chronicles 6:54
These were the areas where Aaron's descendants lived: The following belonged to the Kohathite clan, for they received the first allotment:

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