32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
32 " 'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.
32 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.
32 "As to the Levitical cities, houses in the cities owned by the Levites are always subject to redemption.
32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
32 "The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 25:32
Commentary on Leviticus 25:23-34
(Read Leviticus 25:23-34)
If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price or merit of our own, we are restored to the favour of God. Houses in walled cities were more the fruits of their own industry than land in the country, which was the direct gift of God's bounty; therefore if a man sold a house in a city, he might redeem it only within a year after the sale. This encouraged strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them.