34But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
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The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas,(which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, …
Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. …
Commentary
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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