<P> The Levitical cities were 48 cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi, who were not allocated their own territorial land when the Israelites entered the Promised Land . </P> <P> Numbers 35: 1 - 8 relates God's command to Moses to establish 48 cities for the Levites, of which six would also function as cities of refuge to which a manslayer could flee . Each settlement was to comprise a walled city and the common land around it for pasture, measured radially as one thousand cubits in each direction, or as a square measuring two thousand cubits along each side . The land for the cities was to be' donated' by the host tribe and was allocated to the Levites according to their tribal sub-divisions . </P>

How many cities were the levites given by the other tribes