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Leviticus 25:31

in Leviticus 25

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

KJV

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

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This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
But the houses of the villages, which have no walls round about them,.... As there were many in the days of Joshua, the Scripture speaks of: the Jews suppose that such are meant, even though they were afterwards walled: shall be counted as the fields of the country; and subject to the same law as they: they may be redeemed; at any time before the year of jubilee, and if not, then they shall go out in the jubilee; to the original owners of them, freely, as Jarchi says, without paying anything for them.

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

houses in villages with no walls around them

John Gill records the Jewish rule that a village was judged by its state in Joshua's days. A village walled later still counted as open, and its houses follow the law of the fields. Gill cites Jarchi that they went back to the original owners freely, with nothing paid.

The record, by era

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

16 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.

  • וּבָתֵּ֣יand [the] houses of

    uvateiH1004 →2046 times

  • הַחֲצֵרִ֗יםthe villages

    hachatzerimH2691 →191 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אֵין־not

    ʾein-H369 →789 times

  • לָהֶ֤ם[belongs] to <the> them

    lahem

  • חֹמָה֙a wall

    chomahH2346 →133 times

  • סָבִ֔יבround about

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שְׂדֵ֥ה[the] field of

    sedehH7704 →334 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • יֵחָשֵׁ֑בit will be reckoned

    yechashevH2803 →124 times

  • גְּאֻלָּה֙a right of redemption

    geulahH1353 →14 times

  • תִּהְיֶה־it will belong

    tihyeh-H1961 →3559 times

  • לּ֔וֹto <the> it

    lo

  • וּבַיֹּבֵ֖לand in the jubilee

    uvaiyovelH3104 →27 times

  • יֵצֵֽא׃it will go out

    yetze'H3318 →1067 times

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

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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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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