If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee. The permanent transfer of the urban house after the one-year window — it does not return in the Jubilee — communicates the different theological status of urban property versus agricultural land. The land outside the city is the covenant inheritance; the house within the walled city is commercial property that follows ordinary economic rules. The Jubilee's land-return principle applies to the agricultural covenant inheritance, not to urban commercial real estate.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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