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If sold to a heathen in Israel, then the Goel had to redeem him; and the reason for this was that all Israelites belonged to God. This was the task of the kinsman-goel. The land belonged to the tribe. Pauperism was thus kept off. There could be no 'submerged tenth. The theocratic reason was, 'the land shall not be sold at all for ever for it is Mine!
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