Leviticus 25:34

But the field of the pasture-land of their cities, shall not be sold,—for an age-abiding possession, it is unto them.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

33And, if one of the Levites should not redeem, then shall the sale of the house and the city of his possession go out in the jubilee; for, the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession, in the midst of the sons of Israel.

35And, when thy brother waxeth poor, and his hand becometh feeble with thee, then shalt thou strengthen him, as a sojourner and a settler, so shall he live with thee.

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Cross References

Numbers 35:2Command the sons of Israel, that they give unto the Levites—out of the inheritance which they possess—cities to dwell in,—pasture land also unto the cities, round about them, shall ye give unto the Levites.

Ezekiel 48:13the Levites boundary answering to the boundary of the priests, five and twenty thousand in length and in breadth, ten thousand,—all the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.

Acts 4:36And, Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the Apostles, which is to be translated Son of Exhortation,—a Levite, a Cyprian by nation,

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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