Leviticus 25:34
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New International Version (©2011)
But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Also, the open land of their cities is not to be sold, because it is to remain their perpetual inheritance."

NET Bible (©2006)
Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But a field that belongs to their cities must not be sold, because it is their permanent property.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But the field of the common lands of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

Darby Bible Translation
And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it is to them.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:23-34 If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price or merit of our own, we are restored to the favour of God. Houses in walled cities were more the fruits of their own industry than land in the country, which was the direct gift of God's bounty; therefore if a man sold a house in a city, he might redeem it only within a year after the sale. This encouraged strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold,.... The suburbs to the cities of the Levites reached two thousand cubits on every side of their cities, Numbers 35:5; in which they had fields to keep their cattle in, and these belonged to them in common; every Levite had not a particular field to himself as his own property, and which is the reason why it might not be sold, nor might they agree together to sell it, for then they would have nothing to keep their cattle in: the Jewish writers generally understand this of changing their fields, suburbs, and cities: hence they say, in the Misnah, they do not make a field a suburb, nor a suburb a field, nor a suburb a city, nor a city a suburb; upon which Maimonides (o) says, all agree that the Levites may not change a city, or suburb, or field which are theirs, because of what is said, Leviticus 25:34; and the wise men, of blessed memory, say, the meaning of it is, it shall not be changed, for they do not change anything from what it was before:

for it is their perpetual possession: and therefore never to be alienated from them, or be sold to another, or changed and put to another use; such care was taken of the ministers of the sanctuary, and of their maintenance and support, under the former dispensation; and suggests that they should continue in their stations without any alteration, as ministers of the Gospel should, who ought to give up themselves to the ministry of the word, and prayer, and not entangle themselves with the affairs of life.

(o) In Misn. Eracin, c. 9. sect. 8.

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The Law of Redemption
…32Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Leviticus 25:33 So the property of the Levites is redeemable--that is, a house sold in any town they hold--and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.
Numbers 35:2 "Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns.
2 Chronicles 31:19 As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farm lands around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in the genealogies of the Levites.