So all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
Joshua 21:40
Surrounding context
21:39 Heshbon with its common-land, and Jazer with its common-land: four cities in all.
21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty- eight cities with their common-lands.