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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.
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Houses Treated as Land
Commentators explain that houses in unwalled villages were legally treated as part of the surrounding farmland. Because the land was a direct, God-given inheritance, these homes were inseparable from it and subject to the same laws of restoration, ensuring the preservation of ancestral property.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
But the houses of the villages which have no wall. — Houses in villages, however, form an exception. They are part of the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But the houses of the villages, which have no walls round about them As there were ma…
Presbyterian
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 …
