Leviticus 25:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

Cross References

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

1 Kings 21:3

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will pluck you up from the land that I have given you, and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it,

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 85:1

Lord, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Exodus 19:5

Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,

Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”

Isaiah 8:8

it will sweep on into Judah as a flood and, pouring over, will reach up to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

Ezekiel 48:14

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

Hosea 9:3

They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.

Joel 2:18

Then the Lord became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land

Leviticus 25:10

And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your family.

Leviticus 25:24

Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

Deuteronomy 32:43

Praise, O heavens, his people; worship him, all you gods! For he will avenge the blood of his children and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will repay those who hate him and cleanse the land for his people.”

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.