The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

“When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

The property of the Levites and of the city will be in the middle of that which belongs to the prince. The portion between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin will be for the prince.

“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest’s property.

“‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

We will cross armed in the Lord’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”

(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.

The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.