Leviticus 25:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
  • Acts 4:36-37 : 36 And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated, Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
  • Num 35:2-5 : 2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and give to the Levites suburbs for the cities around them as well. 3 And the cities they shall have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

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  • Lev 25:23-33
    11 verses
    82%

    23The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

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

    25If your brother becomes poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin comes to redeem it, then shall he redeem what his brother sold.

    26And if the man has nothing to redeem it, and himself is able to redeem it;

    27Then 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.

    28But 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.

    29And 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.

    30And 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.

    31But 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.

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

    33And 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.

  • Num 35:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and give to the Levites suburbs for the cities around them as well.

    3And the cities they shall have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

    4And the suburbs of the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

  • Lev 27:17-22
    6 verses
    77%

    17If he sanctifies his field from the year of Jubilee, according to your estimation it shall stand.

    18But if he sanctifies his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain, to the year of the Jubilee, and it shall be abated from your estimation.

    19And if he who sanctified the field will in any way redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be assured to him.

    20And if he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

    21But 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.

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

  • Ezek 48:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

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

    15And the five thousand that are left in the breadth opposite the twenty-five thousand shall be a common place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst of it.

  • Lev 27:24
    75%

    24In 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.

  • Isa 34:17
    74%

    17And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.

  • Lev 25:45-47
    3 verses
    72%

    45Moreover 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.

    46And 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.

    47And 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:

  • Lev 25:12-16
    5 verses
    72%

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

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

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

    15According 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:

    16According 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.

  • Lev 27:28
    71%

    28Nevertheless 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.

  • Ezek 44:28
    71%

    28And 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.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2Therefore, they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as He has said to them.

  • Josh 14:4
    70%

    4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their cattle and for their possessions.

  • Deut 14:27
    70%

    27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

  • Ezek 45:4-6
    3 verses
    70%

    4The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

    5And an area of twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

    6And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and twenty-five thousand in length, beside the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

  • Num 35:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities: these shall you give with their suburbs.

    8And the cities which you shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many you shall give many; but from them that have few you shall give few: everyone shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.

  • Josh 21:12
    70%

    12But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

  • Gen 47:22
    70%

    22Only 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.

  • Num 34:2
    70%

    2Command the children of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with its borders:)

  • Num 36:4
    69%

    4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Deut 18:8
    69%

    8They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his patrimony.

  • Num 36:7
    69%

    7So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not transfer from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

  • Lev 25:4
    69%

    4But 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.

  • Jer 32:15
    68%

    15For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.