But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
Here is, I. A law concerning the real estates of the Israelites in the land of Canaan, and the transferring of them. 1. No land should be sold for ever from the family to whose lot it fell in the division of the land. And the reason given is, The land is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me, Lev 25:23.
Commenting on Leviticus 25:23-38
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold,.... The suburbs to the cities of the Levites reached two thousand cubits on every side of their cities, Num 35:5; in which they had fields to keep their cattle in, and these belonged to them in common; every Levite had not a particular field to himself as his own property, and which...
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession. (q) Where the Levites kept their cattle.