◄ Leviticus 25:31 ►
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Good News Translation
But houses in unwalled villages are to be treated like fields; the original owner has the right to buy them back, and they are to be returned in the Year of Restoration.

New Revised Standard Version
But houses in villages that have no walls around them shall be classed as open country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

Contemporary English Version
But a house out in a village may be bought back at any time just like a field. And it must be returned to its original owner in the Year of Celebration.

New American Bible
However, houses in villages that are not encircled by walls shall be reckoned as part of the surrounding farm land; they may be redeemed, and in the jubilee they must be released.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.

Psalm 49:7,8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom, . . .

Context
The Law of Redemption
…30If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee. 31But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.32The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:30
If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

Leviticus 25:32
The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.

Ezekiel 7:13
For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the iniquity of his life.

Leviticus 25:30
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