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Leviticus 25:29

Leviticus 25:29
And if a man 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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Sell a dwelling house in a walled city - A very proper difference is put between houses in a city and houses in the country. If a man sold his house in the city, he might redeem it any time in the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 25:23-38

Here is, I. A law concerning the real estates of the Israelites in the land of Canaan, and the transferring of them. 1. No land should be sold for ever from the family to whose lot it fell in the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Leviticus 25:29-34

Law in respect to the redemption of houses(P)

Houses in a walled town, if sold, and not redeemed within a year, were (with the exception of those belonging to the Levites) to be unaffected by the…