◄ Leviticus 25:34 ►
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Good News Translation
But the pasture land around the Levite cities shall never be sold; it is their property forever.

New Revised Standard Version
But the open land around their cities may not be sold; for that is their possession for all time.

Contemporary English Version
No pastureland owned by the Levi tribe can ever be sold; it is their permanent possession.

New American Bible
Moreover, the pasture land belonging to their cities shall not be sold at all; it must always remain their possession.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

Leviticus 25:23 The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Acts 4:36,37 And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which is, by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian born, . . .

Context
The Law of Redemption
…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. 34But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.
Cross References
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 35:2
Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

2 Chronicles 31:19
Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the suburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions to all the males, among the priests and the Levites.

Leviticus 25:33
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