Lìwèijì 25:32

32 Ránér Lìwèi rén suǒ de wéi yè de chéngyì , qízhōng de fángwū , Lìwèi rén kĕyǐ suí shí shú huí .

Lìwèijì 25:32 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:32

Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites
The six cities of refuge, and forty two others; these and the houses in them are excepted from the above law, and only they; not such as they might purchase elsewhere; wherefore it follows,

[and] the houses of the cities of their possession;
which were in cities possessed by them, and which was their possession, and given them as such:

may the Levites redeem at any time;
they were not restrained to a year, as houses in walled towns, but they might redeem them as they pleased or could; and if they did not redeem them within the year, they might redeem them afterwards, even years after, and any time before the year of jubilee; so it is said in the Misnah ^F12 the priests and the Levites sell always, and they redeem always, as it is said, ( Leviticus 25:32 ) ; on which one of the commentators says ^F13 "they sell always", not as the Israelites, who cannot sell less than two years before the jubilee; but the Levites can sell near the jubilee: "and they redeem always"; if they sell houses in walled cities, they are not confirmed at the end of the year, as the houses of Israelites; and if they sell fields, it is not necessary they should remain in the hands of the buyer two years, but they may redeem them immediately if they will: this redemption was peculiar to the Levites; for if an Israelite has an inheritance from his father's mother, a Levite, he might not redeem according to the manner Levites did, but according to Israelites; and so a Levite that inherited from his father's mother, an Israelite, was obliged to redeem as an Israelite and not as a Levite ^F14; for this perpetual redemption respected only houses that were in the cities of the Levites.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Eracin, c. 9. sect. 8.
F13 Bartenora in ib.
F14 Misn. Eracin, c. 9. sect. 8.

Lìwèijì 25:32 In-Context

30 Ruò zaì yī zhĕng nián zhī neì bù shú huí , zhè chéng neì de fángwū jiù déng zhún yǒng guī mǎi zhǔ , shì shìdaì daì wéi yè , zaì xǐ nián yĕ bùdé chū mǎi zhǔ de shǒu .

31 Dàn fángwū zaì wú chéngqiáng de cūnzhuāng lǐ , yào kàn rú xiāng xià de tiándì yíyàng , kĕyǐ shú huí , dào le xǐ nián , dōu yào chū mǎi zhǔ de shǒu .

32 Ránér Lìwèi rén suǒ de wéi yè de chéngyì , qízhōng de fángwū , Lìwèi rén kĕyǐ suí shí shú huí .

33 Ruò shì yī gè Lìwèi rén bú jiàng suǒ maì de fángwū shú huí , shì zaì suǒ de wéi yè de chéng neì , dào le xǐ nián jiù yào chū mǎi zhǔ de shǒu , yīnwei Lìwèi rén chéngyì de fángwū shì tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè rén zhōng de chǎnyè .

34 Zhǐshì tāmen gè chéng jiāo yĕ zhī dì bùkĕ maì , yīnwei shì tāmen yǒngyuǎn de chǎnyè .