Leviticus 25:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with 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 an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they 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 all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no 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 hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner 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, 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 favourable 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 from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Exodus 2:22

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

Isaiah 8:8

and he shall sweep onward into Judah; he shall overflow and pass through; he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Ezekiel 48:14

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

Hosea 9:3

They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

Joel 2:18

Then was the LORD jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I 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 the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile 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 make expiation for his land, for his people.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;