Numbers 35:7-9

Darby Translation

⁷ all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.

⁸ And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have much ye shall take much, and from them that have little ye shall take little; each one according to his inheritance which he will inherit shall give of his cities to the Levites.

⁹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,