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The Levites' Protected Inheritance
Commentators agree that houses owned by Levites were treated like farmland, not like other city houses. Because the Levites had no tribal land allotment, these homes were their entire inheritance. This special law ensured that a Levite's home could never be permanently sold and would always return to the original family in the Year of Jubilee.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 25:32–33
18th Century
Theologian
Rather, And concerning the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, etc. If one of the Levites redeems a h…
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 25:33
19th Century
Bishop
And if a man purchase of the Levites. — Better, And if one of the Levites redeem it, that is, even if a Levite r…
John Gill
On Leviticus 25:33
17th Century
Pastor
And if a man purchase of the Levites An house or city, as Jarchi, and which the following clause confirms, that is, if a …
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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 …