Numbers 35:6-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁶ “The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge,^(A) which you must provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give 42 other cities.^{(B) 7} The total number of cities you give the Levites will be 48, along with their pasturelands. 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. Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.”