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Leviticus 25:30

in Leviticus 25

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

KJV

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

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This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Not go out - Because most of the houses in cities were occupied by artificers and traders whose wealth did not consist in lands.

This site's exposition

If a man sells a house in a walled city

on Leviticus 25:29-31

A house inside a walled city is the one property in Israel that can be sold outright, once twelve months pass unredeemed. The law guards the family's share of ground, and a dwelling with no field under it falls outside that guard.

This site's exposition

permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants

Albert Barnes explains the exception by who lived in walled towns. Most city houses were held by craftsmen and traders, whose wealth lay in their trade and their goods. The one year of verse 29 is the seller's only chance.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This provision was made to encourage strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them. Though they could not purchase land in Canaan to them and their heirs, yet they might purchase houses in walled cities, which would be most convenient for those who were supposed to live by trade.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold--All sales of houses were subject to the same condition.

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The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאִ֣םand if

    veimH518 →1069 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִגָּאֵ֗לit will be redeemed

    yigaelH1350 →104 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • מְלֹ֣אתis completed

    melotH4390 →249 times

  • לוֹ֮to <the> it

    lo

  • שָׁנָ֣הa year

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • תְמִימָה֒complete

    temimahH8549 →91 times

  • וְ֠קָםand it will stand

    vekomH6965 →628 times

  • הַבַּ֨יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּעִ֜יר[is] in the city

    bairH5892 →1090 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • ל֣וֹ[belongs] to <the> it

    lo

  • חֹמָ֗הa wall

    chomahH2346 →133 times

  • לַצְּמִיתֻ֛תto <the> perpetuity

    latzemitutH6783 →

  • לַקֹּנֶ֥הto the [one who] bought

    lakonehH7069 →84 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • לְדֹרֹתָ֑יוto generations his

    ledorotavH1755 →167 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יֵצֵ֖אit will go out

    yetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • בַּיֹּבֵֽל׃in the jubilee

    baiyovelH3104 →27 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 25 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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