Leviticus 25:23

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Summary

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

The land

Leviticus 25:10

1 Kings 21:3

Ezekiel 48:14

For ye are

General references

Leviticus 25:4

Numbers 36:4

Bible References

The 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.

But Naboth said to Ahab, “I will never give my fathers’ inheritance to you.”

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.

For ye are

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

“Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.

I am a stranger on earth;
do not hide Your commands from me.

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

General references

But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the Lord: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”