Numbers 35:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ All the cities that you give to the Levites will total forty-eight, along with their pastures. ⁸ As for the cities that you give from the property of the Israelites, you will take more from the larger tribes and less from the smaller. Each in proportion to its inheritance will give cities to the Levites.

Refuge cities

⁹ The Lord spoke to Moses: