Leviticus 25:23
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The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

The land

Leviticus 25:10 And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:

1 Kings 21:3 Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

Ezekiel 48:14 And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord.

for ever.

Deuteronomy 32:43 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

2 Chronicles 7:20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.

Psalm 24:1 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.

Psalm 85:1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. [2] Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

Isaiah 8:8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

Joel 2:18 The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared his people.

Joel 3:2 I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.

for ye are

Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 119:19 I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Hebrews 11:9-13 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

Context
The Law of Redemption
23The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.24For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:13
All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

Exodus 2:22
And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

Exodus 19:5
If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

Leviticus 25:24
For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

1 Kings 21:3
Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 119:19
I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Hosea 9:3
They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

Lexicon
The land
וְהָאָ֗רֶץ (wə·hā·’ā·reṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

must not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be sold
תִמָּכֵר֙ (ṯim·mā·ḵêr)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4376: To sell

permanently,
לִצְמִתֻ֔ת (liṣ·mi·ṯuṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6783: Excision, destruction, extinction, perpetually

because
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it is Mine,
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

and
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

you
אַתֶּ֖ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are but foreigners
גֵרִ֧ים (ḡê·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1616: A guest, a foreigner

and sojourners
וְתוֹשָׁבִ֛ים (wə·ṯō·wō·šā·ḇîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8453: Resident alien

with Me.
עִמָּדִֽי׃ (‘im·mā·ḏî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5978: Against, by, from, me, mine, of, that I take, unto,


Additional Translations
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and sojourners with Me.The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

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 shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.

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

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

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

"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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