Leviticus 25:23 Parallel Translations

"Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.

WBS:

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.

YLT:

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

Leviticus 25:23 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 23:4 "I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

Exodus 19:5 'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

1 Chronicles 29:15 "For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Psalm 39:12 "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner like all my fathers.

Hebrews 11:13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

25:23 The land shall not be sold {l} for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
(l) It could not be sold for ever, but must return to the family in the Jubile.

WES:

25:23 For ever - So as to be for ever alienated from the family of him that sells it. Or, absolutely and properly, so as to become the property of the buyer: Or, to the extermination or utter cutting off, namely, of the seller, from all hopes and possibility of redemption. The land is mine - Procured for you by my power, given to you by my grace and bounty, and the right of propriety reserved by me. With me - That is, in my land or houses: thus he is said to sojourn with another that dwells in his house. Howsoever in your own or other mens opinions you pass for lords and proprietors, yet in truth, ye are but strangers and sojourners, not to possess the land for ever, but only for a season, and to leave it to such as I have appointed for it.

MHC:

25:23-34 If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price or merit of our own, we are restored to the favour of God. Houses in walled cities were more the fruits of their own industry than land in the country, which was the direct gift of God's bounty; therefore if a man sold a house in a city, he might redeem it only within a year after the sale. This encouraged strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them.

CONC:

Aliens Exchange Extinction Foreigners Guests Moreover Permanently Perpetuity Settlers Sojourners Sold Strangers Tenants

Aliens Exchange Extinction Foreigners Guests Live Moreover Permanently Perpetuity Settlers Sojourners Sold Strangers Tenants Time

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