Leviticus 25:38
I am LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
37Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Leviticus 11:45For I am LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Numbers 15:41I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am LORD your God.
Jeremiah 31:33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws (LXX/NT) in their inward parts, and I will write them (LXX/NT) in their hearts. And I will be their God, and th
Hebrews 11:16But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:24-39
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto… Read the whole commentary →