Imamat 25:23

25:23 The land must not be sold without reclaim ¹  because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me. ² 

Yehezkiel 45:8

45:8 of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

Mikha 2:1-2

Land Robbers Will Lose their Land

2:1 Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, ³ 

those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. ⁴ 

As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, ⁵ 

because they have the power to do so.

2:2 They confiscate the fields they desire,

and seize the houses they want. ⁶ 

They defraud people of their homes, ⁷ 

and deprive people of the land they have inherited. ⁸ 

[25:23]  ¹ tn The term rendered “without reclaim” means that the land has been bought for the full price and is, therefore, not subject to reclaim under any circumstances. This was not to be done with land in ancient Israel (contrast the final full sale of houses in v. 30; see the evidence cited in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 174).

[25:23]  ² tn That is, the Israelites were strangers and residents who were attached to the Lord’s household. They did not own the land. Note the parallel to the “priest’s lodger” in Lev 22:10.

[2:1]  ³ tn Heb “Woe to those who plan sin.” The Hebrew term הוֹי (hoy, “woe”; “ah”) was a cry used in mourning the dead.

[2:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “those who do evil upon their beds.”

[2:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “at the light of morning they do it.”

[2:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “they desire fields and rob [them], and houses and take [them] away.”

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they oppress a man and his home.”

[2:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and a man and his inheritance.” The verb עָשַׁק (’ashaq, “to oppress”; “to wrong”) does double duty in the parallel structure and is understood by ellipsis in the second line.