Leviticus 25:23
And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers with Me;
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In Context
24and in all the land of your possession you give a redemption for the land.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob says to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.”
Leviticus 25:10and you have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and you have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it is a Jubilee for you; and you have turned back each to his possession; indeed, you return each to his family.
1 Kings 21:3And Naboth says to Ahab, “Far be it from me, by YHWH, my giving the inheritance of my fathers to you”;
2 Chronicles 7:20and this house that I have sanctified for My Name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb and for a byword among all the peoples.
Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O YHWH, || And give ear [to] my cry, || Do not be silent to my tear, || For I [am] a sojourner with You, || A settler like all my fathers.
Psalms 85:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. You have accepted, O YHWH, Your land, || You have turned [to] the captivity of Jacob.
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 →