Leviticus 25:23
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Context
This verse from Leviticus Chapter 25 connects to 10 cross-references. The Sabbatical Year requires Israel to let the land rest every seventh year; the Jubilee Year every fiftieth year releases all Israelite debt-slaves and returns family land to its original owners. These institutions express God's ownership of the land and …
Other Translations
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
`And the land is not sold--to extinction, for the land <FI>is<Fi> Mine, for sojourners and settlers <FI>are<Fi> ye with Me;
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.
Cross References
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure …
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance …
And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto …
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this …
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and …
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy …
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with …
Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few …