⁴⁰ All these were the cities of the descendants^[a] of Merarite according to their families, the remaining families of the Levites; their allotment was twelve cities.

⁴¹ All the cities of the Levites among the property of the Israelites^[b] were forty-eight cities and their pasturelands. ⁴² Each of these cities had pasturelands surrounding them; so it was for all of these cities.