32Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
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Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel; …
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 division of the land. And the reason given is, The land is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me , Lev. 25:23. (1.) God having a particular propriety in this land, he would by this restraint…
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