“But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.”
But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession. The pastureland of the Levitical towns — the grazing land surrounding the cities that supports the Levites' animals — cannot be sold at all. The permanent possession of the pastureland is the one category of the Jubilee's land theology that admits no sale or redemption: the Levites' pastureland is entirely outside the economic transactions that the rest of the Jubilee system manages.
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