Leviticus 25:23 KJV — MannaFest

Leviticus 25:23

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

KJV

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ASV

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

WEB

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

YLT

`And the land is not sold--to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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25 verses on the floor

Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Kings 21:3
And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
Ezekiel 48:14
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.
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.

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If a man was constrained through poverty to sell his land for the subsistence of his family, yet, if afterwards he was able, he might redeem it before the year of jubilee (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The land shall not be sold for ever--or, "be quite cut off," as the Margin better renders it. The land was God's, and, in prosecution of an important design, He gave it to the people of His choice, dividing it among their tribes and families--who, however, held it of Him merely as tenants-at-will and had no right or power of disposing of it to strangers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LEV 25:23PSA 24:1 PSA 89:11
LEV 25:23PSA 24:1 1CO 10:26
LEV 25:23PSA 24:1 1CH 29:11
LEV 25:23PSA 24:1 JOB 41:11
LEV 25:23PSA 24:1 DEU 10:14
LEV 25:231PE 2:11 HEB 11:13
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LEV 25:231PE 2:11 1JN 2:15-17
LEV 25:231PE 2:11 GAL 5:24

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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