Numbers 35:7-9

Young's Literal Translation

⁷ all the cities which ye give to the Levites [are] forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.

⁸ And the cities which ye give [are] of the possession of the sons of Israel, from the many ye multiply, and from the few ye diminish; each, according to his inheritance which they inherit, doth give of his cities to the Levites.'

⁹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,