Leviticus 25:23
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
In context
21 But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
22 While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
24 Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
25 If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Leviticus 25:23 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- KJV King James Version
- The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- WEB World English Bible
- “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And the land is not sold — to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for sojourners and settlers [are] ye with Me;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- WBS Webster Bible
- The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.