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30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended,[a] the house in the walled city[b] will belong without reclaim[c] to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the Jubilee. 31 The houses of villages, however,[d] which have no wall surrounding them[e] must be considered as the field[f] of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the Jubilee. 32 As for[g] the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess,[h] the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:30 tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’
  2. Leviticus 25:30 tn Heb “the house which [is] in the city which to it [is] a wall.” The Kethib has לֹא (loʾ, “no, not”) rather than לוֹ (lo, “to it”) which is the Qere.
  3. Leviticus 25:30 tn See the note on v. 23 above.
  4. Leviticus 25:31 tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”
  5. Leviticus 25:31 tn Heb “which there is not to them a wall.”
  6. Leviticus 25:31 tn Heb “on the field.”
  7. Leviticus 25:32 tn Heb “And.”
  8. Leviticus 25:32 tn Heb “the houses of the cities of their property.”