Discovery BoxLeviticus 25:30-31 
Context25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, 1 the house in the walled city 2 will belong without reclaim 3 to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee. 25:31 The houses of villages, however, 4 which have no wall surrounding them 5 must be considered as the field 6 of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.
1 tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’
2 tn Heb “the house which [is] in the city which to it [is] a wall.” The Kethib has לֹא (lo’, “no, not”) rather than לוֹ (lo, “to it”) which is the Qere.
3 tn See the note on v. 23 above.
4 tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”
5 tn Heb “which there is not to them a wall.”
6 tn Heb “on the field.”
