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Leviticus 25:23
The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
Leviticus 25:23 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Leviticus 25:23 in other translations
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
“‘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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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.
26 But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
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