Leviticus 25:23
And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
24And in every land of your possession, ye shall allow ransoms for the land.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
Leviticus 25:10And ye shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and ye shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and ye shall go each to his family.
1 Kings 21:3Thy silver and thy gold are mine, and thy wives and thy children are mine.
2 Chronicles 7:20then will I remove you from the land which I gave them; and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will remove out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.
Psalms 39:12But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; 1 Thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually. 1
Psalms 85:1A Prayer of David. 1 O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; 1 For I am poor and needy. 1
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 →