Leviticus 25:34

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

In Context

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.

35If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,

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Cross References

Numbers 35:2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

Ezekiel 48:13And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the priests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

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

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:24-39

23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto… Read the whole commentary →

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