Leviticus 25:23

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Summary

Leviticus 25:23

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

The land

Leviticus 25:10

1 Kings 21:3

Ezekiel 48:14

For ye are

General references

Leviticus 25:4

Numbers 36:4

Bible References

The land

You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid me that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

Moreover, they shall not sell or exchange any of it, or alienate this choice portion of land; for it is holy to the Lord.

For ye are

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The

years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

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.

“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.

I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

General references

but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

When the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”