³² As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.^{(A) 33} Whatever property of the Levites that may be redeemed, that is, houses sold in a city belonging to them, shall be released in the Jubilee, for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites. ³⁴ But the pasturelands around their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession for all time.

³ For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.^(A)

⁴ For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and no portion was given to the Levites in the land but only towns to live in, with their pasturelands for their flocks and herds.^(A)