The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. The theological foundation of the entire Jubilee system: the land is mine — God's declaration of permanent ownership of the promised land. The covenant community resides in the land as foreigners and strangers — tenants in the landlord's property. The Jubilee is not a human legal convention but the expression of the landlord's rights: God who owns the land establishes the terms of its use, and those terms include the Jubilee return. Psalm 24:1 says the earth is the Lord's and everything in it — the land-ownership theology of Leviticus 25:23 is the specific application of the universal principle.

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