Leviticus 25:23

HaAretz shall not be sold permanently: for HaAretz is Mine, for ye are gerim and toshavim with Me.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

In Context

22And ye shall sow the shanah hasheminit, and eat yet of tevuah yashan (old increase) until the ninth year; until her harvest come in, ye shall eat of the yashan (old).

24And in all the eretz of your possession ye shall grant a Geulah for HaAretz.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:9And Ya'akov said unto Pharaoh, The days of the shanim of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty shanah; few and bad have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my avot in the days of their pilgrimage.

Leviticus 25:10And ye shall treat as kodesh the fiftieth year, and proclaim deror (freedom) throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a Yovel (Jubilee) unto you; and ye shall return every man unto the ancestral heritage of his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his mishpochah.

1 Kings 21:3And Navot said to Ach'av, Chalilah li me' Hashem (far be it from me before Hashem ), that I should give the nachalat Avoti unto thee.

2 Chronicles 7:20Then will I uproot them out of My Adamah which I have given them; and HaBeis HaZeh, which I have set apart as kodesh for Shmi, will I cast out of My sight, and will make it to be a Mashal (byword) and an object of ridicule among Kol haAmim.

Psalms 39:12When Thou with rebukes dost correct man for avon (iniquity), 1 Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: 1 surely kol adam are hevel (vanity). 1 Selah 1

Psalms 85:1(For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. Mizmor) 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 →

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