Numbers 35:7

7 All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands.

Numbers 35:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:7

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be
forty eight cities
Of these forty eight cities, their names, and what tribes they were in, and which of them were particularly cities of refuge, an account is given in ( Joshua 21:10-37 ) :

them shall ye give, with their suburbs;
according to the dimensions before prescribed.

Numbers 35:7 In-Context

5 You will measure outside the city the eastern edge two thousand cubits, for the southern edge two thousand cubits, for the western edge two thousand cubits, and for the northern edge two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this will be for them the pasturelands of the cities.

6 "All the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.

7 All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands.

8 And the cities that you will give from the property of the {Israelites}, you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits."

9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,