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What is the significance of forty-eight towns?

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Oznayim la'Torah: The towns had to be average size towns, 1 which the Gemara in Erchin, 33, defines as one of five hundred inhabitants. Consequently, seeing as there were twenty-three thousand Levi'im, they would need forty-six towns, to which they added two to allow for the number of murderers who the Torah anticipates would eventually live there.


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Refer to 35:11:2:1.

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