Numbers 35:7-8 ▼

7 The total number of the cities which you are to give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands.

8 As for the cities which you shall give them from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take fewer from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his inheritance which he possesses.”