Joshua 21:40-42

21:40 The Merarite clans (the remaining Levites) were allotted twelve cities.

21:41 The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites ¹  forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas. 21:42 Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard. ² 

[21:41]  ¹ tn Heb “in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel.”

[21:42]  ¹ tn Heb “these cities were city [by] city, and its grazing areas [were] around it; so [it was] for all these cities.”