Parallel Verses
Amplified
‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.
New American Standard Bible
‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for
King James Version
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Holman Bible
“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.
International Standard Version
"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me.
A Conservative Version
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
American Standard Version
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Bible in Basic English
No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.
Darby Translation
And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Julia Smith Translation
And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
King James 2000
The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land [is] mine, because you [are] aliens and temporary residents with me.
Modern King James verseion
The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is Mine. For you are strangers and pilgrims with Me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me:
NET Bible
The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.
New Heart English Bible
"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
The Emphasized Bible
The land moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land, - for, sojourners and settlers, ye are with me.
Webster
The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
World English Bible
"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Redemption of sold property
God » Ownership of » Of the natural world
Holy land » All inheritances in, inalienable
Land » Sale and redemption of, laws concerning
Land » Original title to, from God
divine Ownership » Of the natural world
Real estate » Land reverts to original owner in the year of jubilee
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 25:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Redemption Of Property
22
When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crops, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.
23 ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are
Psalm 39:12
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
Leviticus 25:10
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and
Deuteronomy 32:43
“Rejoice, O nations, with His people;
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And will render vengeance on His adversaries,
And will atone for His land and His people.”
2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will uproot Israel from My land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My Name, out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and an object of scorn among all nations.
Psalm 85:1
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).
Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the land of the Lord,
But Ephraim will return to [another] Egypt [in bondage]
And they will eat [ceremonially] unclean food in Assyria.
Joel 2:18
Then the Lord will be jealous for His land [ready to defend it since it is rightfully and uniquely His]
And will have compassion on His people [and will spare them].
Joel 3:2
I will gather together all the [Gentile] nations [that were hostile to My people]
And bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the Lord has judged).
And there I will deal with them and enter into judgment with them there
For [their treatment of] My people, My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations,
And [because] they have encroached on My land and divided it up.
Genesis 23:4
“I am a stranger and a sojourner (resident alien) among you; give (sell) me property for a burial place among you so that I may bury my dead [in the proper manner].”
Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will in fact obey My voice and keep My covenant (agreement), then you shall be My own special possession and treasure from among all peoples [of the world], for all the earth is Mine;
1 Kings 21:3
But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.”
Psalm 24:1
The world, and those who dwell in it.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.
Isaiah 8:8
“Then it will
Reaching even to the neck [of which Jerusalem is the head],
And its outstretched wings (the armies of Assyria) will fill the width of Your land, O Immanuel.
Ezekiel 48:14
And they shall not sell any of it or exchange it, or allow this choice portion of land to pass to others; for it is holy to the Lord.
Hebrews 11:9-13
By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents [as nomads] with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.