Leviticus 25:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

Leviticus 25:23 Cross References

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a 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.

1 Kings 21:3

And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then 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.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 39:13

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 85:1

Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Exodus 19:5

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Exodus 2:22

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Isaiah 8:8

and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Imman´u-el.

Ezekiel 48:14

And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.

Hosea 9:3

They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but E´phra-im shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Joel 2:18

Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Joel 3:2

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehosh´aphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Leviticus 25:10

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

Leviticus 25:24

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

Deuteronomy 32:43

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;