Leviticus 25:23

¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.

The land {H776} shall not be sold {H4376} for ever {H6783}: for the land {H776} is mine; for ye are strangers {H1616} and sojourners {H8453} with me.

"'The land is not to be sold in perpetuity, because the land belongs to me -you are only foreigners and temporary residents with me.

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 1 Peter 2:11 (8 votes)

    Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • Psalms 39:12 (6 votes)

    Hear 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].

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15 (5 votes)

    For 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.

  • Ezekiel 48:14 (5 votes)

    And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for [it is] holy unto the LORD.

  • Psalms 24:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

  • Deuteronomy 32:43 (4 votes)

    Rejoice, 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.

  • Exodus 19:5 (4 votes)

    Now 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: