Leviticus 25:23
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The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
In other translations
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
Hebrew words
וְהָאָרֶץveha'aretzand the landH776לֹאlo'notH3808תִמָּכֵרtimakherit will be soldH4376לִצְמִתֻתlitzmitutto perpetuityH6783כִּי־ki-forH3588לִיli[belongs] to <the> meהָאָרֶץha'aretzthe landH776כִּי־ki-forH3588גֵרִיםgerim[are] sojournersH1616וְתוֹשָׁבִיםvetoshavimand resident aliensH8453אַתֶּם'atemyouH859עִמָּדִי׃'imadiwith meH5978
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- 1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- Ezekiel 48:14And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.
- Psalm 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Psalm 39:12Hear 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.Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Deuteronomy 32:43Rejoice, O ye 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.Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
- Genesis 23:4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20Then 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.then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an 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.“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
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