Leviticus 25:23

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The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine; you are only foreigners and residents with me.

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  • Ps 39:12 : 12 With reproofs for iniquity, You discipline a man; like a moth, You consume his cherished things. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from fleshly desires, which wage war against the soul.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Joel 2:18 : 18 Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.
  • Joel 3:2 : 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them concerning my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up my land.
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 For the choir director: A psalm of the sons of Korah.
  • Lev 25:10 : 10 You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you, and every one of you shall return to your property and to your family.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, you nations, with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will take vengeance on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, 'The LORD forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance!'
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 “I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me a burial site among you so I can bury my dead out of my sight.”
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob replied to Pharaoh, 'The days of my sojourning have been one hundred thirty years. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not compare to the years of the lives of my fathers during their sojourning.'
  • Exod 19:5 : 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Isa 8:8 : 8 It will sweep into Judah, flooding and passing through; it will reach up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the entire breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
  • Ezek 48:14 : 14 This land must not be sold, exchanged, or transferred, for it is holy to the Lord; it is set apart as the firstfruits of the land.
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was waiting for the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. 12 And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. 13 All these people died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar and been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, they openly declared that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord, the world and all who live in it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:24
    84%

    24In every part of the land that you own, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

  • Lev 25:27-34
    8 verses
    80%

    27he shall calculate the years since its sale, refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.

    28But if he cannot afford to repay, what he sold will remain with the buyer until the Year of Jubilee; in the Jubilee it will be released, and he will return to his property.

    29If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right of redemption for a full year after its sale; his right of redemption shall last a year.

    30But if it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, the house in the walled city will become permanently the property of the buyer and their descendants; it will not be released in the Jubilee.

    31But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open country. They can be redeemed, and they must be released in the Jubilee.

    32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities they possess have a permanent right of redemption for the Levites.

    33If anyone redeems property from the Levites, the property that was sold in the city they possess must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

    34But the fields of the pastureland belonging to their cities must not be sold, for they are their permanent possession.

  • Lev 27:24
    74%

    24In the Year of Jubilee, the field will return to the original owner from whom it was purchased, the one who holds it as their ancestral inheritance.

  • Lev 25:45-47
    3 verses
    73%

    45You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your land, and they will become your property.

    46You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites harshly.

    47If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

  • Ezek 48:14
    73%

    14This land must not be sold, exchanged, or transferred, for it is holy to the Lord; it is set apart as the firstfruits of the land.

  • Lev 25:4-7
    4 verses
    73%

    4but in the seventh year, the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5You shall not harvest what grows by itself after your harvest, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. It will be a year of complete rest for the land.

    6During this Sabbath of the land, all its produce will be food for you—for yourself, your servants, your hired workers, and the resident foreigners who live among you,

    7as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its produce may be used as food.

  • Lev 25:12-16
    5 verses
    73%

    12For it is a Jubilee and it shall be holy to you; you may eat only what the fields produce naturally.

    13In this year of Jubilee, everyone shall return to their property.

    14If you sell land to your neighbor or buy land from your neighbor, do not take advantage of one another.

    15You are to buy from your neighbor based on the number of years since the Jubilee, and they are to sell to you according to the number of harvest years.

    16The more years there are, the higher you may increase the price, and the fewer years there are, the lower you shall reduce the price, because what they are really selling to you is the number of harvests.

  • Lev 25:42
    73%

    42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

  • Lev 27:20-22
    3 verses
    72%

    20If they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can no longer be redeemed.

    21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy to the LORD, like a field devoted to Him. It will belong to the priest as their possession.

    22If someone dedicates a field they purchased, one that is not part of their ancestral inheritance, to the LORD,

  • Lev 25:22
    72%

    22When you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old produce until the ninth year, when its harvest comes in.

  • Lev 25:2
    71%

    2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

  • Exod 23:10
    71%

    10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce.

  • Num 33:53
    71%

    53You shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

  • Gen 17:8
    70%

    8And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  • 1 Cor 10:26
    70%

    26For the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.

  • Exod 19:5
    70%

    5Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine.

  • Lev 20:24
    70%

    24But I said to you, 'You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

  • Gen 23:4
    69%

    4“I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me a burial site among you so I can bury my dead out of my sight.”

  • Lev 23:22
    69%

    22When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely harvest the corners of your field, nor gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 25:55
    69%

    55For the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 25:10
    69%

    10You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you, and every one of you shall return to your property and to your family.

  • Gen 13:15
    69%

    15For all the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.

  • Lev 25:38-40
    3 verses
    69%

    38I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

    39If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

    40They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

  • Lev 19:33
    69%

    33When a stranger resides with you in your land, do not mistreat them.

  • Gen 47:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because they received a fixed provision from Pharaoh and lived on that provision which Pharaoh gave them; therefore, they did not sell their land.

    23Then Joseph said to the people, 'Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you to sow in the land.'

  • Lev 25:19
    69%

    19The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live securely upon it.

  • Lev 27:28
    69%

    28Anything that is devoted to the LORD, whether a person, an animal, or a field from one's possession, cannot be sold or redeemed; everything devoted is most holy to the LORD.

  • Ezek 7:13
    69%

    13The seller will not recover what was sold as long as both of them live, because the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve their life.

  • Ezek 44:28
    69%

    28They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.