Leviticus 25:29

29 "If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right to buy it back for a full year after the sale. At any time during that year he can redeem it.

Leviticus 25:29 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:29

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city
Which was so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun, as Jarchi:

then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold:
any time within the year he pleased, either he or any near of kin to him; and if they would, on the day it was sold, or any time after within the compass of the year, even on the day in which the year ended; in this such an house differed from fields, which could not be redeemed under two years, (See Gill on Leviticus 25:15);

[within] a full year may he redeem it;
from the time it was sold, paying what it was sold for: this is to be understood, Maimonides ^F8 says, of a solar year, which consists of three hundred sixty five days, and within this space of time such an house might be redeemed.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 In Misn. Eracin, c. 9. sect. 3.

Leviticus 25:29 In-Context

27 he is to calculate the value since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own land.

28 If he doesn't get together enough money to repay him, what he sold remains in the possession of the buyer until the year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it will be returned and he can go back and live on his land.

29 "If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right to buy it back for a full year after the sale. At any time during that year he can redeem it.

30 But if it is not redeemed before the full year has passed, it becomes the permanent possession of the buyer and his descendants. It is not returned in the Jubilee.

31 However, houses in unwalled villages are treated the same as fields. They can be redeemed and have to be returned at the Jubilee.