Leviticus 25:29-34

Expanded Bible

²⁹ “‘If someone sells a home in a walled city, for a full year after it is sold, the person has the right to ·buy it back [redeem it]. ³⁰ But if the owner does not ·buy back the house [redeem it] before a full year is over, it will belong to the one who bought it ·and to his future sons [^Lin perpetuity, throughout his generations]. The house will not go back to the first owner at Jubilee. ³¹ But houses in ·small towns [villages] without walls are like open ·country [fields]; they can be ·bought back [redeemed], and they must be returned to their first owner at Jubilee.

³² “‘The Levites may always ·buy back [redeem] their houses in the cities that belong to them. ³³ If someone buys a house from a Levite, that house in the Levites’ city will again belong to the Levites in the Jubilee. This is because houses in Levite cities belong to the people of Levi; ·the Israelites gave these cities to them [^Lfor the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons/^Tchildren of Israel; Num. 35:1–8; Josh. 21:1–45]. ³⁴ Also the ·fields and pastures [^Lopen land] around the Levites’ cities cannot be sold, because ·those fields belong to the Levites [^Lthat is their possession] forever.