Leviticus 25:23
King James Version (KJV)
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
In context
21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
Leviticus 25:23 in every translation
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents 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.