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


In Context

20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:

22 And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.

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

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

25 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold.

Leviticus 25:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:23" 'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:23And the land is not sold — to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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