Leviticus 25:23
21 But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
22 While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
24 Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
25 If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- KJV
- The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- WEB
- “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
- ASV
- And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- DARBY
- And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- BLB
- And the land shall not be sold permanently, for the land [is] Mine, for you⁺ [are] strangers and sojourners with Me.
- ÅB
- Jorden må ikke selges for alle tider; for meg hører landet til, dere er fremmede og gjester hos meg.
- OTB
- "'Landet skal ikke selges permanent, fordi landet er mitt og dere bor i mitt land som vandrere og gjester.
- B1930
- Jorden må ikke selges for alle tider; for mig hører landet til, I er fremmede og gjester hos mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Read in contextEzekiel 48:14
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.
Read in contextPsalms 24:1
The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
Read in contextPsalms 39:12
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.
Read in context1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Read in contextGenesis 23:4
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Read in contextExodus 19:5
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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:43
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.
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