I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial-site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.
Leviticus 25:23 - The Scriptures 2009 ‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The land shall not be sold into perpetual ownership, for the land is Mine; you are [only] strangers and temporary residents with Me. [Heb. 11:13; I Pet. 2:11-17.] American Standard Version (1901) And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. Common English Bible The land must not be permanently sold because the land is mine. You are just immigrants and foreign guests of mine. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me. |
I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial-site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.
And Ya‛aqoḇ said 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.”
And Naḇoth said to Aḥaḇ, “Far be it from me, by יהוה, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”
“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.
then I shall pluck them from My land, which I have given them, and this house which I have set apart for My Name I shall cast out of My sight and make it to be a proverb and a mockery among all peoples.
The earth belongs to יהוה, And all that fills it – The world and those who dwell in it.
Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.”
Look away from me, That I might brighten up, Before I go away and am no more.
יהוה, You shall take pleasure in Your land; You shall turn back the captivity of Ya‛aqoḇ.
‘And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine –
And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gĕreshom, for he said, “I have become a sojourner in a foreign land.”
“And he shall pass through Yehuḏah, he shall overflow and pass over, reaching up to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanu’ĕl.
“And they do not sell any of it, nor exchange it, nor transfer this best part of the land, for it is set-apart to יהוה.
They shall not dwell in the land of יהוה, but Ephrayim shall return to Mitsrayim, and eat unclean food in Ashshur.
then I shall gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Yehoshaphat. And I shall enter into judgment with them there for My people, My inheritance Yisra’ĕl, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up My land.
‘And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Yoḇel for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.
‘And provide for a redemption for the land, in all the land of your possession.
O nations, acclaim His people! For He avenges the blood of His servants, And returns vengeance to His adversaries, And shall pardon His land, His people.
Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the being,