7 All the cities that YOU will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, they together with their pasture grounds.+

4 For the sons of Joseph had become two tribes,+ Ma·nasʹseh+ and Eʹphra·im;+ and they had not given a share in the land to the Levites, except cities+ to dwell in and their pasture grounds for their livestock and their property.+

2 and they proceeded to speak to them in Shiʹloh+ in the land of Caʹnaan, saying: “Jehovah by means of Moses commanded cities to be given us in which to dwell, together with their pasture grounds for our domestic animals.”+