Leviticus 25:23

World English Bible (2000)

"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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  • Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Joel 2:18 : 18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.
  • Joel 3:2 : 2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
  • Lev 25:10 : 10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 Naboth said to Ahab, "May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!"
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they 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 my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • Isa 8:8 : 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
  • Ezek 48:14 : 14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

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    24 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 reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

    28 But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

    29 "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

    30 If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

    31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

    32 "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

    33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the 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.

  • Lev 27:24
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    24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

  • Lev 25:45-47
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    45 Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

    46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

    47 "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;

  • Ezek 48:14
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    14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

  • Lev 25:4-7
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    4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

    6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

    7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

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

    13 "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

    14 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

    15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

    16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

  • Lev 25:42
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    42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

  • Lev 27:20-22
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    20 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 Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.

    22 "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

  • Lev 25:22
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    22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

  • Lev 25:2
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    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

  • Exod 23:10
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    10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

  • Num 33:53
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    53 and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the land to you to possess it.

  • Gen 17:8
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    8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

  • 1 Cor 10:26
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    26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

  • Exod 19:5
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    5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

  • Lev 20:24
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    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 Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

  • Gen 23:4
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    4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

  • Lev 23:22
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    22 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"

  • Lev 25:55
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    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 Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 25:10
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    10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

  • Gen 13:15
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    15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

  • Lev 25:38-40
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    38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

    39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

    40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

  • Lev 19:33
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    33 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

  • Gen 47:22-23
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    22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

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

  • Lev 25:19
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    19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  • Lev 27:28
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    28 "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.

  • Ezek 7:13
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    13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  • Ezek 44:28
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    28 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.