Levites: Profits from in Lieu of Landed Inheritance, Forty-Eight Cities with Suburbs Were Assigned to Them

“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities. …

For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”