Leviticus 25:33

וַאֲשֶׁר יִגְאַל מִן־הַלְוִיִּם וְיָצָא מִמְכַּר־בַּיִת וְעִיר אֲחֻזָּתוֹ בַּיֹּבֵל כִּי בָתֵּי עָרֵי הַלְוִיִּם הִוא אֲחֻזָּתָם בְּתוֹךְ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

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Hebrew

וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִגְאַל֙ מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם וְיָצָ֧א מִמְכַּר־בַּ֛יִת וְעִ֥יר אֲחֻזָּת֖וֹ בַּיֹּבֵ֑ל כִּ֣י בָתֵּ֞י עָרֵ֣י הַלְוִיִּ֗ם הִ֚וא אֲחֻזָּתָ֔ם בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ὃς ἂν λυτρωσάμενος παρὰ τῶν Λευειτῶν, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται ἡ διάπρασις αὐτῶν οἰκιῶν πόλεως κατασχέσεως αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ ἀφέσει, ὅτι οἰκίαι τῶν πόλεων τῶν Λευειτῶν κατάσχεσις αὐτῶν ἐν μέσῳ υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

si redemptæ non fuerint, in jubilæo revertentur ad dominos, quia domus urbium Levitarum pro possessionibus sunt inter filios Israël.

Spanish

Si un levita no rescata la casa que vendió en su ciudad, de todas maneras la casa quedará libre en el año de jubileo, porque las casas en las ciudades levitas son su propiedad exclusiva entre los israelitas.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y el que comprare de los Levitas, saldrá de la casa vendida, ó de la ciudad de su posesión, en el jubileo: por cuanto las casas de las ciudades de los Levitas es la posesión de ellos entre los hijos de Israel.

English

So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed — a house sold in a city they possess— and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse continues the regulation on Levitical property, stating that whatever a Levite redeems — a house sold, or a city he possesses — reverts at the jubilee, because the houses in Levite cities constitute their permanent possession among the Israelites.

Key words

yig'al ("he will redeem", H1350A) — qal imperfect, describing an ongoing or future act of redemption performed by an unspecified subject introduced by the relative asher ("that", H0834A).
yatza ("it will go out", H3318H) — qal sequential (vav-consecutive) perfect, continuing the narrative sequence begun by yig'al; it marks the legal consequence (release/reversion) that follows the redemption.
mimkar ("sale of", H4465) — masculine singular construct, forming a construct chain with bayit ("house", H1004B), literally "the sale of a house."
achuzzato ("his possession", H0272 + suffix) — construct noun with pronominal suffix, marking the property as tied to a specific owner before the jubilee reversion.
ki ("for/if", H3588A) — subordinating particle introducing the reason clause that follows, explaining why Levitical houses behave differently from ordinary sold property.

What the text says

The verse opens with a relative clause built on asher ("that/who", H0834A) plus yig'al ("he will redeem", H1350A), naming an unspecified person — presumably a Levite, per the context of ha-leviyyim ("the Levites", H3881) — who redeems property. The vav-consecutive verb yatza ("it will go out", H3318H) then states the result: the mimkar ("sale of", H4465) a bayit ("house", H1004B) or an ir achuzzato ("city of his possession", H5892B + H0272) is released ba-yovel ("in the jubilee", H3104), the periodic reversion year.

The second half of the verse, introduced by ki ("for", H3588A), gives the underlying rationale: the battei arei ha-leviyyim ("houses of the cities of the Levites", H1004B + H5892B + H3881) are called achuzzatam ("their possession", H0272 + H9028), a construct-plus-suffix form emphasizing permanent tribal ownership, located be-tokh benei Yisrael ("among the sons of Israel", H8432 + H1121G). The construct chains stacked in this clause (house-of-city-of-Levites) tie the property tightly to Levite identity rather than to individual transaction.

Differences between versions

The LXX phrases the opening clause with a participle, λυτρωσάμενος ("having ransomed"), lacking a clear finite main verb corresponding to yig'al, and makes "the sale" (διάπρασις) the subject of "will go out" rather than the property itself. The Vulgate and SBLIBRE render the clause as a negative condition — "if [it] has not been redeemed" / "if a Levite does not redeem" — which reverses the polarity of the Hebrew's affirmative relative clause "that which he redeems." RV1909 translates yig'al as "compraré" ("buys") rather than "redeems," diverging from the redemption sense carried by H1350A in the other versions.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.