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Leviticus 25:34

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But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

This site's exposition

the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses

on Leviticus 25:32-34

The tribe holding the least land gets the strongest tenure in the chapter. A Levite may always redeem his house, it returns at the Jubilee, and the pastureland around the Levitical cities may never be sold.

This site's exposition

the open pastureland around their cities

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown tie this land to Numbers 35:4 and 35:5, pasture for the Levites' cattle and flocks. They call it a permanent endowment for the ministry. Matthew Henry sets it beside Genesis 47, where even the Egyptians preserved the land of their priests.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Even the Egyptians took care to preserve the land of the priests, Gen. xlvii. And there is no less reason for the taking of the maintenance of the gospel ministry under the special protection of Christian governments. A law for the relief of the poor, and the tender usage of poor debtors, and these are of more general and perpetual obligation than the former.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold,....

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וּֽשְׂדֵ֛הand [the] field of

    usedehH7704 →334 times

  • מִגְרַ֥שׁ[the] pasture land of

    migrashH4054 →

  • עָרֵיהֶ֖םcities their

    ʾareihemH5892 →1090 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יִמָּכֵ֑רit will be sold

    yimakherH4376 →80 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אֲחֻזַּ֥ת[is] a possession of

    ʾachuzatH272 →66 times

  • עוֹלָ֛םperpetuity

    olamH5769 →438 times

  • ה֖וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • לָהֶֽם׃ סto <the> them

    lahem

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

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 31:19As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands around each of their cities or in any other city, men were designated by name to distribute a portion to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed by the genealogies.4 worksLeviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.3 worksActs 4:36–37Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),3 worksNumbers 35:2–5“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.2 worksEzekiel 48:14They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.2 worksJeremiah 32:7Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:23

    The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 2:11

      Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

    • Ezekiel 48:14

      They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.

    • Psalms 39:12

      Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

    • 1 Chronicles 29:15

      For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

    • Psalms 24:1

      The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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