Parallel Verses
King James 2000
The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners 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.
Amplified
‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents 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.
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 And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until its new fruits come in you shall eat of the old fruit. 23 The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Leviticus 25:10
And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family.
Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
Psalm 85:1
[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] LORD, you have been favorable unto your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Hosea 9:3
They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Joel 2:18
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
Joel 3:2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will enter into judgment with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have divided up my land.
Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
1 Kings 21:3
And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto you.
Psalm 24:1
[A Psalm of David.] The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
Isaiah 8:8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and pass over, he shall reach up to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
Ezekiel 48:14
And they shall not sell any of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
Hebrews 11:9-13
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: