Leviticus 25:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
  • Joel 2:18 : 18 Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.
  • Joel 3:2 : 2 And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.
  • Lev 25:10 : 10 And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
  • Exod 19:5 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.
  • Isa 8:8 : 8 And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.
  • Ezek 48:14 : 14 And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage: 10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God. 11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word; 12 So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered. 13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:24
    84%

    24 Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

  • Lev 25:27-34
    8 verses
    80%

    27 Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

    28 But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

    29 And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

    30 And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

    31 But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

    32 But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

    33 And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

    34 But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

  • Lev 27:24
    74%

    24 In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.

  • Lev 25:45-47
    3 verses
    73%

    45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

    46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

    47 And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

  • Ezek 48:14
    73%

    14 And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

  • Lev 25:4-7
    4 verses
    73%

    4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

    5 That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

    6 And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Lev 25:12-16
    5 verses
    73%

    12 For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

    13 In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

    14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

    15 Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

    16 If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

  • Lev 25:42
    73%

    42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

  • Lev 27:20-22
    3 verses
    72%

    20 But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

    21 But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

    22 And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

  • Lev 25:22
    72%

    22 And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

  • Lev 25:2
    71%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

  • Exod 23:10
    71%

    10 For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

  • Num 33:53
    71%

    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

  • Gen 17:8
    70%

    8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

  • 1 Cor 10:26
    70%

    26 For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.

  • Exod 19:5
    70%

    5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

  • Lev 20:24
    70%

    24 But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

  • Gen 23:4
    69%

    4 I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

  • Lev 23:22
    69%

    22 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 25:55
    69%

    55 For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 25:10
    69%

    10 And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

  • Gen 13:15
    69%

    15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

  • Lev 25:38-40
    3 verses
    69%

    38 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.

    39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

    40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

  • Lev 19:33
    69%

    33 And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

  • Gen 47:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22 Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.

    23 Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

  • Lev 25:19
    69%

    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

  • Lev 27:28
    69%

    28 But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

  • Ezek 7:13
    69%

    13 For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:

  • Ezek 44:28
    69%

    28 And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.