◄ Leviticus 25:32 ►
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Good News Translation
However, Levites have the right to buy back at any time their property in the cities assigned to them.

New Revised Standard Version
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.

Contemporary English Version
If any Levites own houses inside a walled city, they will always have the right to buy them back.

New American Bible
In levitical cities the Levites shall always have the right to redeem the houses in the cities that are in their possession.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.

the cities

Numbers 35:2-8 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions, . . .

Joshua 21:1-45 Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds of all the tribes of the children of Israel . . .

Context
The Law of Redemption
…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.33If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:31
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.

Leviticus 25:33
If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.

Numbers 35:1
And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:

Numbers 35:8
And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.

Joshua 21:2
And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.

Ezekiel 48:14
And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord.

Leviticus 25:31
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