~ Towns for the Levites ~

"Six of the towns you give the Levites
will be cities of refuge,
to which a person who has killed someone may flee.
In addition,
give them forty-two other towns.
In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns,
together with their pasturelands.
The towns you give the Levites
from the land Israelites possess
are to be given in proportion
to the inheritance of each tribe:
Take many towns from a tribe that has many,
but few from one that has few.

(Numbers 35:6-8)