The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess. The Levite exception for the Jubilee city-house rules: the Levites can always redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, and the houses return in the Jubilee. The Levites are the one group that has no agricultural inheritance — their inheritance is the Lord himself (Numbers 18:20) and the Levitical cities that are scattered throughout the land. The protection of the Levites' houses in their assigned cities is the covenant's provision for the tribe that has no land-inheritance: the Jubilee protects what the Levites do have since they cannot have what the other tribes have.

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