“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Leviticus 25:23 - Revised Standard Version The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me. 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 stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
then I will pluck you up from the land which 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.
The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!”
Lord, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob.
Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine,
She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”
and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck; and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanu-el.”
They shall not sell or exchange any of it; they shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
Then the Lord became jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
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, and have divided up my land,
And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.
And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.
“Praise his people, O you nations; for he avenges the blood of his servants, and takes vengeance on his adversaries, and makes expiation for the land of his people.”
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.