“And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.”
So the property of the Levites is redeemable — that is, a house sold in any town they hold — and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. The Levitical towns are the Levites' equivalent of the agricultural land: the Jubilee return of their town houses is the equivalent of the return of agricultural land to the other tribes. The covenant equity of the Jubilee extends to the Levites through the specific application of the Jubilee principle to their unique situation.
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