‘I am a foreigner residing among you. Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’ ,
Leviticus 25:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on my land. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 residing among you. Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’ ,
Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’
But Naboth said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord is my witness, I will never give my ancestors’ inheritance to you.’
For we are foreigners and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for my name I will banish from my presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine,
She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, ‘I have been a resident foreigner in a foreign land.’
It will pour into Judah, flood over it, and sweep through, reaching up to the neck; and its flooded banks will fill your entire land, Immanuel!
They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this choice part of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.
They will not stay in the land of the Lord. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. , I will enter into judgement with them there because of my people, my inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up my land.
You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.
Rejoice, you nations, concerning his people, , for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries; , he will purify his land and his people.
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.