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.

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

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.

then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.

Then he is to have the house scraped all around on the inside, and the plaster which is scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.

He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

and he is to send the live bird away outside the city into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the house and it will be clean.

“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.

I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.