Leviticus 25:29

29 And if a man shall sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold: [within] a full year may he 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 Then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.

28 But if he shall not be able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

29 And if a man shall sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold: [within] a full year may he redeem it.

30 And if it shall not be redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee,

31 But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them, shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.