KJV King James Version
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
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Leviticus 25:23
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
WEB World English Bible
“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
ASV American Standard Version
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 25
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְהָאָ֗רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetלֹ֤אH3808 · lonotתִמָּכֵר֙H4376 · ma.kharto sellלִצְמִתֻ֔תH6783 · tse.mi.tutfinalityכִּי־H3588 · kiforלִ֖יH9030 · nimeהָאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforגֵרִ֧יםH1616 · gersojournerוְתוֹשָׁבִ֛יםH8453 · to.shavsojournerאַתֶּ֖םH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)עִמָּדִֽי׃H5978 · im.madwith me
Cross-references
1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;Ezekiel 48:14And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for [it is] holy unto the LORD.Psalm 24:1A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.1 Chronicles 29:15For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.Psalm 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:Deuteronomy 32:43Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.Genesis 23:4I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.Joel 2:18Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria.Joel 3:2I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.2 Chronicles 7:20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.Leviticus 25:10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.Psalm 85:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.Psalm 119:19I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.1 Kings 21:3And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.Hebrews 11:9-13By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
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