Leviticus Chapter 25 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
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BBE Leviticus 25:23

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.
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DARBY Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
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KJV Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
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WBT Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
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WEB Leviticus 25:23

"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
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YLT Leviticus 25:23

`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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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23, 24. - For the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. Many incidental advantages, if some difficulties, arose from the jubilee law (which will be the more appreciated if we compare the evils resulting from slavery and the accumulation of land in a few hands, found in the history of Rome or any other ancient nation); but its essential features, so far as the land was concerned, was its inculcation of the lesson of the proprietorship of the Lord. Palestine was God's land: he divided it once for all in the time of Joshua among his people, and every fifty years he required that recourse should be had to that original division, in order that in each generation the people might feel themselves to be his tenants, not independent owners, possessores, not domini.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) The land shall not be sold for ever.--That is, no plot of the land of Israel must be absolutely alienated from the original proprietor, who has been driven by poverty to sell his patrimony. We have here a resumption of the laws relating to the sale and purchase of land, which have already been briefly stated in Leviticus 25:14-17. Having been interrupted by the insertion of the Divine promise with regard to the sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:20-22), the legislation now proceeds with more directions about the limited sale of land.For the land is mine.--The reason for this prohibition absolutely to cut off the patrimony from the family, is that God claims to be the supreme owner of the land (Exodus 15:17; Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 14:25; Jeremiah 2:5; Psalm 10:16), and as the Lord of the soil He prescribes conditions on which he allotted it to the different tribes of Israel. . . .