Leviticus 25:34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Cross References

Leviticus 25:33
And 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.

Numbers 35:2
Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give also to the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

2 Chronicles 31:19
Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

32-34. Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, &c.—The Levites, having no possessions but their towns and their houses, the law conferred on them the same privileges that were granted to the lands of the other Israelites. A certain portion of the lands surrounding the Levitical cities was appropriated to them for the pasturage of their cattle and flocks (Nu 35:4, 5). This was a permanent endowment for the support of the ministry and could not be alienated for any time. The Levites, however, were at liberty to make exchanges among themselves; and a priest might sell his house, garden, and right of pasture to another priest, but not to an Israelite of another tribe (Jer 41:7-9).