25 'When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother; 26 and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient 'for' its redemption, 27 then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold 'it', and he hath returned to his possession. 28 'And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession. 29 'And when a man selleth a dwelling-house 'in' a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days—is his right of redemption; 30 and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which 'is' in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out in the jubilee;
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 25:25-30
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.