Leviticus 25:29-34

International Children’s Bible

²⁹ “‘Someone may sell a home in a walled city. But, for a full year after he sold it, he has the right to buy it back. ³⁰ But the owner might not buy back the house before a full year is over. If he doesn’t, the house in the walled city will belong to the one who bought it. It will belong to his future sons. The house will not go back to the first owner at Jubilee. ³¹ But houses in small towns without walls are like open country. They can be bought back. And they must be returned to their first owner at Jubilee.

³² “‘The Levites may always buy back their houses. This is true in the cities which belong to them. ³³ Someone might buy a house from a Levite. But 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 people of Israel gave these cities to the Levites. ³⁴ Also the fields and pastures around the Levites’ cities cannot be sold. Those fields belong to the Levites forever.