“All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Joshua 21 contains 45 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.