Leviticus 25:31

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open country. They can be redeemed, and they must be released in the Jubilee.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubi.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    But the housses in villagies which haue no walles rounde aboute them shalbe counted like vnto the feldes of the cuntre and maye be boughte out agayne at any season and shall goo out fre in the trompett yere.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Neuertheles yf it be an house in a vyllage that hath no wall aboute it, it shall be counted like vnto the felde of the coutre, and maye be redemed and shal go out fre in the yeare of Iubilye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But the houses of villages, which haue no walles round about them, shalbe esteemed as the fielde of the countrey: they may be bought out againe, and shall goe out in the Iubile.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But the houses of vyllages, which haue no walles rounde about them, are counted as the fielde of the coutrey: and therefore they may be bought out agayne, and shal go out in the Iubilee.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:7-8 : 7 Those who trust in their wealth and boast in the abundance of their riches— 8 no man can redeem another or give to God a ransom for him—

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    24In every part of the land that you own, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

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    26But if a man has no one to redeem it for him, and later he prospers and finds enough to redeem it,

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    29If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right of redemption for a full year after its sale; his right of redemption shall last a year.

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    32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities they possess have a permanent right of redemption for the Levites.

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    48they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them.

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