Leviticus 25:32
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New International Version (©1984)
"'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"The Levites always have the right to buy back their property in the cities they own.

King James Bible
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

American King James Version
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

Bible in Basic English
But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

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

Darby Bible Translation
But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

English Revised Version
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

Webster's Bible Translation
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

World English Bible
"'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

Young's Literal Translation
'As to cities of the Levites -- houses of the cities of their possession -- redemption age-during is to the Levites;

Geneva Study Bible

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

32-34. Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, &c.-The Levites, having no possessions but their towns and their houses, the law conferred on them the same privileges that were granted to the lands of the other Israelites. A certain portion of the lands surrounding the Levitical cities was appropriated to them for the pasturage of their cattle and flocks (Nu 35:4, 5). This was a permanent endowment for the support of the ministry and could not be alienated for any time. The Levites, however, were at liberty to make exchanges among themselves; and a priest might sell his house, garden, and right of pasture to another priest, but not to an Israelite of another tribe (Jer 41:7-9).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:23-34 If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price or merit of our own, we are restored to the favour of God. Houses in walled cities were more the fruits of their own industry than land in the country, which was the direct gift of God's bounty; therefore if a man sold a house in a city, he might redeem it only within a year after the sale. This encouraged strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them.


Numbers 35:1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,
Joshua 21:2 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle." (NASB ©1995)

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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

the cities
As the Levites had no inheritance in Israel, but only cities to dwell in; and consequently the houses in these cities were all they could call their own, therefore they could not be ultimately alienated. Nu 35:2-8 Jos 21:1-45

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