So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
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Interpretation
The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them, but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For though the typical service of the tabernacle or temple was only in one place, the preaching of the word of God, and prayer and praise, were not thus confined.