Leviticus 25:23

Modern English Version

The land shall not be permanently sold, for the land is Mine, for you are foreigners and sojourners with Me.

Cross References

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me property for a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

1 Kings 21:3

Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers and sojourners before You, just as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot them from My land that I have given to them; and the house that I have consecrated for My name, I will throw it from before Me and set it as a proverb and taunt among the peoples.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O  Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 39:13

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may become cheerful again, before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 85:1

Lord, You have been favorable to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Exodus 19:5

Now therefore, if you will faithfully obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.

Exodus 2:22

Then she gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign 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 your land, O Immanuel.

Ezekiel 48:14

They shall not sell of it or exchange or alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.

Joel 2:18

Then the Lord became jealous for His land and took pity upon His people.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with them there regarding My people and My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land.

Leviticus 25:10

You shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee to you, and each of you shall return to his possession, and every person shall return to his family.

Leviticus 25:24

In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

Deuteronomy 32:43

Rejoice, O you nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants and will render vengeance on His adversaries and will be merciful to His land and people.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.