Numbers 35:6-8

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ “The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge,^(A) which you will provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give forty-two other cities.^{(B) 7} The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands.^{(C) 8} Of the cities that you give from the Israelites’ territory, you should take more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.^(D) Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.”