Numbers 35:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ Six of the cities that you give to the Levites will be refuge cities. You will allow the person who kills someone to flee there. In addition to these you will give them forty-two cities. 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.