Leviticus 25:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

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  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
  • Joel 2:18 : 18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
  • Joel 3:2 : 2 I will gather all nations and will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land.
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 LORD, You have been favorable to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
  • Lev 25:10 : 10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants: it shall be a Jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a possession of a burial place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • Exod 19:5 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine:
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Isa 8:8 : 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
  • Ezek 48:14 : 14 And they shall not sell it, nor exchange it, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy to the LORD.
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

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  • 24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

  • Lev 25:27-34
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    27 Then let him count the years of the sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.

    28 But if he is not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that bought it until the year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

    29 And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

    30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the Jubilee.

    31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee.

    32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

    33 And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of Jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

    34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

  • 24 In the year of the Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belonged.

  • Lev 25:45-47
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    45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession.

    46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.

    47 And if a sojourner or stranger becomes rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

  • 14 And they shall not sell it, nor exchange it, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy to the LORD.

  • Lev 25:4-7
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    4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.

    5 What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your undressed vine: for it is a year of rest to the land.

    6 And the sabbath of the land shall provide food for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who dwells with you,

    7 And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Lev 25:12-16
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    12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat its increase out of the field.

    13 In the year of this Jubilee you shall return every man to his possession.

    14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

    15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you:

    16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewness of years you shall diminish its price: for according to the number of years of the crops he sells to you.

  • 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

  • Lev 27:20-22
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    20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

    21 But the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

    22 And if a man sanctifies to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

  • 22 And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you shall eat of the old store.

  • 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.

  • 10 Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,

  • 53 and you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  • 26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

  • 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine:

  • 24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from other people.

  • 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a possession of a burial place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

  • 22 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any of the gleaning of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger; I am the LORD your God.

  • 55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • 10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants: it shall be a Jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.

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

  • Lev 25:38-40
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    38 I 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.

    39 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

    40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee:

  • 33 And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.

  • Gen 47:22-23
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    22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: therefore they did not sell their lands.

    23 Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

  • 19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  • 28 Nevertheless no devoted thing that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

  • 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, though they are yet alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  • 28 And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.