Verse 23
Leviticus 25:23
King James Version
23
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land
is mine; for ye
are strangers and sojourners with me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָ/אָ֗רֶץ לֹ֤א תִמָּכֵר֙ לִ/צְמִתֻ֔ת כִּי לִ֖/י הָ/אָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי גֵרִ֧ים וְ/תוֹשָׁבִ֛ים אַתֶּ֖ם עִמָּדִֽ/י
English Translation
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and settlers with Me.
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Chapter 25 Context
1
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, t...
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Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the f...
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But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt...
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That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes o...
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And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid,...
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And for thy cattle, and for the beast that
are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of t...
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Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth
day of the seventh month, in t...
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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout
all the land unto all the inh...
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A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of...
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For it
is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
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And if thou sell
ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not opp...
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According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour,
and according unt...
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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewn...
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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God (Elohim): for I
am the LORD...
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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the lan...
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And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
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And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our...
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three...
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And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat
yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits co...
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The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land
is mine; for ye
are strangers and sojourners with...
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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
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If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away
some of his possession, and if any of his kin come...
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And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
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Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he s...
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But if he be not able to restore
it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him...
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And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after...
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And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that
is in the walled city...
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of...
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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites,
and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the...
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And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession,...
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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
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And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him:
yea, t...
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Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God (Elohim); that thy brother may live with th...
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Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
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I
am the LORD your God (Elohim), which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the l...
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And if thy brother
that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel...
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But as an hired servant,
and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee,
and shall serve thee unto the ye...
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And
then shall he depart from thee,
both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own...
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For they
are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as...
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Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God (Elohim).
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Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
shall be of the heathen that are round a...
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Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of th...
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And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit
them for a possessi...
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother
that dwelleth by him wax poor, and...
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After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
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Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or
any
that is nigh of kin unto him of his fa...
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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of...
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If
there be yet many years
behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redempti...
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And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him,
and accordi...
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And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him:
and the other shall not rule with rigour over hi...
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And if he be not redeemed in these
years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile,
both he, and h...
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For unto me the children of Israel
are servants; they
are my servants whom I brought forth out of th...
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