Leviticus 25:23
Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.
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In The King James Version
In Context
24Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9He responded, “The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers.”
Leviticus 25:10And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,
1 Kings 21:3Naboth responded to him, “May the Lord be gracious to me, lest I give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
2 Chronicles 7:20I will uproot you from my land, which I gave to you, and from this house, which I sanctified to my name, and I will cast it away from before my face, and I will deliver it to be a parable and an example for all the peoples.
Psalms 39:12O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
Psalms 85:1A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:9-23
Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. ( b. c. 1490.) 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the… Read the whole commentary →