Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for all of you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Updated King James Version

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

In Context

22And all of you shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in all of you shall eat of the old store.

24And in all the land of your possession all of you shall grant a redemption for the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil 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 fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Leviticus 25:10And all of you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and all of you shall return every man unto his possession, and all of you shall return every man unto his family.

1 Kings 21:3And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto you.

2 Chronicles 7:20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalms 85:1Lord, you have been favourable unto your land: you have brought back 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 →

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