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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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Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 25:31
19th Century
Bishop
But the houses of the villages which have no wall. — Houses in villages, however, form an exception. They are part of the…
John Gill
On Leviticus 25:31
17th Century
Pastor
But the houses of the villages, which have no walls round
about them
As there were ma…
Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 25:23–34
17th Century
Minister
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 …