And if it be not 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 jubile.
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Gill's Exposition
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year,.... Either by the seller or any man of kin to him:
then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that…
Barnes' Notes
Not go out - Because most of the houses in cities were occupied by artificers and traders whose wealth did not consist in lands.
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…
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…