Leviticus 25:23

The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.

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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

22You will plant in the eighth year and continue to eat from the previous years' produce and the stored food. Until the harvest of the ninth year comes in, you will be able to eat from the provisions stored in the previous years.

24You must observe the right of redemption for all the land that you acquire; you must allow the land to be bought back by the family from whom you bought it.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my travels are a hundred and thirty. The years of my life have been few and painful. They have not been as long as those of my ancestors.”

Leviticus 25:10You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families.

1 Kings 21:3Naboth replied to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid that I should give the inheritance of my ancestors to you.”

2 Chronicles 7:20then I will uproot them from out of my ground that I have given them. This house that I have set apart for my name, I will cast away from before me, and I will make it a proverb and a joke among all the peoples.

Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me; 1 listen to my weeping! 1 Do not be deaf to me, 1 for I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee like all my ancestors were. 1

Psalms 85:1Yahweh, you have showed favor to your land; 1 you have restored the well-being of Jacob. 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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