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Lev. 25:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

The land shall not be sold κfor ever: for the land is mineb; for ye are strangersc and sojourners with me.

for cutting off, or, to be quite cut off.

2 Chron. 7:20• ²⁰then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. (2 Chron. 7:20)

Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)

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The land.

Lev. 25:10• ¹⁰And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all the inhabitants thereof: a jubilee shall it be to you, and ye shall return [every] man to his possession, and ye shall return [every] man to his family. (Lev. 25:10)

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1 Kings 21:3• ³And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee! (1 Kings 21:3)

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Ezek. 48:14• ¹⁴And they shall, not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land; for [it is] holy unto Jehovah. (Ezek. 48:14)

for ever.

or, to be quite cut off.

Heb. for cutting off.for the land.

Deut. 32:43• ⁴³Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people:{HR}For he will avenge the blood of his servants,{HR}And will render vengeance to his adversaries,{HR}And will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. (Deut. 32:43)

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Psa. 24:1• ¹A Psalm of David.{HR}To Jehovah [belongeth] the earth and its fullness,{HR}The world and those who dwell in it. (Psa. 24:1)

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Psa. 85:1• ¹To the chief musician; for the sons of Korah, a psalm.{HR}Thou hast been favourable, O Jehovah, to thy land;{HR}Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob; (Psa. 85:1)

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Isa. 8:8• ⁸and he shall sweep on into Judah; and he shall overflow and go farther, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the out-stretching of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. (Isa. 8:8)

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Hos. 9:3• ³They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean. (Hos. 9:3)

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Joel 2:18• ¹⁸Then will Jehovah be jealous for his land, and pity his people. (Joel 2:18)

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Joel 3:2• ²I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3:2)

for ye are.

Gen. 47:9• ⁹And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. (Gen. 47:9)

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1 Chron. 29:15• ¹⁵For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. (1 Chron. 29:15)

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)

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Psa. 119:19• ¹⁹For me I [am] a sojourner in the earth:{HR}Hide not thy commandments from me. (Psa. 119:19)

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Heb. 11:9‑13• ⁹By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
¹⁰for he waited for the city that hath the foundations, of which God is architect and master-builder.
¹¹By faith also Sarah herself received power for deposition of seed even beyond season of age, since she counted faithful him that promised.
¹²Wherefore also there were born from one, and that one become dead, even as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand that is by the sea-shore.
¹³All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. (Heb. 11:9‑13)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort [you] as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)

• The land itself is held for Jehovah, as being His; it must enjoy God’s rest. (“Leviticus 25” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

And the land shall not be sold for everd; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "unto extinction." so ver. 30.

W. Kelly Translation

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.