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If it isn`t 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 who bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.
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God's Gift vs. Human Industry
Commentators explain that houses in walled cities were treated differently from agricultural land. Land was a divine inheritance from God, tied to a tribe, and always returned in the Jubilee. City houses, however, were seen as the product of human industry and commerce, and thus could be sold permanently.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Not go out - Because most of the houses in cities were occupied by artisans and traders whose wealth did not consist in lands.
19th Century
Anglican
if it is not redeemed within a full year. —This means redemption by either the vendor or his son. According to the interpretation …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year , &c.] Either by the seller or any man of kin to him:
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If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him who sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of …
