Numbers 35:7-9

American Standard Version

⁷ All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs. ⁸ And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

⁹ And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,