32 “‘As for the houses of the Levites within their cities,+ the Levites will have the permanent right to repurchase them. 33 When the property of the Levites is not bought back, the house sold in the city belonging to them will also be released in the Jubilee,+ because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.+ 34 Moreover, the field of pasture ground+ surrounding their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

3 So at the order of Jehovah, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities+ and their pastures out of their own inheritance.+

14 The Levites left their pastures and their possession+ and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jer·o·boʹam and his sons had dismissed them from serving as priests to Jehovah.+