Leviticus 25:23

WEB

²³“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

KJV

²³¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

BSB

²³The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

FBV

²³Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.

Extra References

1 Peter 2:11

¹¹Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

Ezekiel 48:14

¹⁴They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to the LORD.

Psalms 24:1

¹The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

Psalms 39:12

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

1 Chronicles 29:15

¹⁵For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Exodus 19:5

⁵Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Deuteronomy 32:43

⁴³Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

Hosea 9:3

³They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

Psalms 85:1

¹LORD, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

¹⁰You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.