- Bible
- Leviticus
- Chapter 25
- Verse 34
Leviticus 25:34
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold,.... The suburbs to the cities of the Levites reached two thousand cubits on every side of their cities, Num 35:5; in which they had fields…
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
The law concerning houses in Levitical cities is not to apply to land outside the walls.
suburbs rather, as R.V. mg., pasture lands, probably referring to common land belonging to the inhabitants of…