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" 'If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time he may redeem it.

If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

" 'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

So the property of the Levites is redeemable-that is, a house sold in any town they hold-and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.