Imamat 25:29-31

Release of Houses

25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, ¹  its right of redemption must extend ²  until one full year from its sale; ³  its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year. ⁴  25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, ⁵  the house in the walled city ⁶  will belong without reclaim ⁷  to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee. 25:31 The houses of villages, however, ⁸  which have no wall surrounding them ⁹  must be considered as the field ¹⁰  of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

[25:29]  ¹ tn Heb “a house of a residence of a walled city.”

[25:29]  ² tn Heb “shall be.”

[25:29]  ³ tn Heb “of its sale.”

[25:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

[25:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’

[25:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “the house which [is] in the city which to it [is] a wall.” The Kethib has לֹא (lo’, “no, not”) rather than לוֹ (lo, “to it”) which is the Qere.

[25:30]  ⁷ tn See the note on v. 23 above.

[25:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”

[25:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “which there is not to them a wall.”

[25:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on the field.”