39. Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs: four cities in all.
40. All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
41. All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
42. Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It was this way with all these cities.