Levítico 25:32

32 »Los levitas siempre tienen el derecho de volver a comprar una casa que vendan dentro de las ciudades que se les asignaron.

Levítico 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.

Levítico 25:32 In-Context

30 Sin embargo, si no vuelve a comprarla en el plazo de un año, la venta de la casa dentro de la ciudad amurallada no podrá revertirse. Será la propiedad permanente del comprador. No se le regresará al primer propietario en el año de jubileo.

31 Pero una casa en una aldea —un asentamiento sin murallas— será considerada como una propiedad en el campo. Está permitido volver a comprar esa casa en cualquier momento, y deberá regresarse a su primer propietario en el año de jubileo.

32 »Los levitas siempre tienen el derecho de volver a comprar una casa que vendan dentro de las ciudades que se les asignaron.

33 Y cualquier propiedad que los levitas vendan —todas las casas dentro de las ciudades de los levitas— tendrá que ser devuelta en el año de jubileo. Después de todo, las casas dentro de las ciudades reservadas para los levitas son las únicas propiedades que ellos poseen en todo Israel.

34 Los pastizales que rodean las ciudades de los levitas nunca podrán venderse. Es su posesión perpetua.