LAND

Passages on this topic · 141

• Genesis 1:9

  God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

• Genesis 13:14

  Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

• Genesis 13:15

  for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

• Genesis 13:16

  I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

• Genesis 13:17

  Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

• Genesis 15:7

  He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

• Genesis 23:3

  Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

• Genesis 23:4

  “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

• Genesis 23:5

  The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

• Genesis 23:6

  “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:7

  Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

• Genesis 23:8

  He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

• Genesis 23:9

  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”

• Genesis 23:10

  Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

• Genesis 23:11

  “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:12

  Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

• Genesis 23:13

  He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

• Genesis 23:14

  Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

• Genesis 23:15

  “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:16

  Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

• Genesis 23:17

  So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

• Genesis 23:18

  to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

• Genesis 23:19

  After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 23:20

  The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.

• Genesis 33:19

  He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

• Genesis 47:20

  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

• Genesis 47:21

  As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

• Genesis 47:22

  Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

• Genesis 47:23

  Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

• Genesis 47:24

  It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

• Genesis 47:25

  They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Exodus 23:31

  I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

• Leviticus 25:15

  According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

• Leviticus 25:16

  According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

• Leviticus 25:23

  “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

• Leviticus 25:24

  In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

• Leviticus 25:25

  “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

• Leviticus 25:26

  If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

• Leviticus 25:27

  then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:28

  But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:29

  “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

• Leviticus 25:30

  If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:32

  “‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

• Leviticus 25:33

  The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

• Leviticus 27:17

  If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.

• Leviticus 27:19

  If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.

• Leviticus 27:20

  If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;

• Leviticus 27:21

  but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.

• Leviticus 27:22

  “‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

• Leviticus 27:23

  then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 27:24

  In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

• Numbers 27:1

  Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 27:2

  They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

• Numbers 27:3

  “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

• Numbers 27:4

  Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

• Numbers 27:5

  Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

• Numbers 27:6

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 27:7

  “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

• Numbers 27:8

  You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

• Numbers 27:9

  If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

• Numbers 27:10

  If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

• Numbers 27:11

  If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”

• Numbers 36:1

  The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 36:2

  They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

• Numbers 36:3

  If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

• Numbers 36:4

  When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

• Numbers 36:5

  Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.

• Numbers 36:6

  This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

• Numbers 36:7

  So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

• Numbers 36:8

  Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

• Numbers 36:9

  So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”

• Numbers 36:10

  The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:

• Numbers 36:11

  for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

• Ruth 4:4

  I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

• Ruth 4:6

  The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of legalizing transactions in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his shoe.

• Ruth 4:9

  Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

• Ruth 4:10

  Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 4:11

  All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 8:2

  The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

• 2 Kings 8:3

  At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

• 2 Kings 8:4

  Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

• 2 Kings 8:5

  As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”

• 2 Kings 8:6

  When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Ecclesiastes 5:9

  Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

• Isaiah 5:8

  Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

• Jeremiah 32:7

  ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”

• Jeremiah 32:8

  “So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.

• Jeremiah 32:9

  I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

• Jeremiah 32:11

  So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

• Jeremiah 32:12

  and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 32:13

  “I commanded Baruch before them, saying,

• Jeremiah 32:14

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.’

• Jeremiah 32:15

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.’

• Jeremiah 32:16

  Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,

• Jeremiah 32:25

  You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

• Jeremiah 32:44

  Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 46:18

  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.

• Ezekiel 47:22

  It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

• Ezekiel 48:10

  For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it.

• Ezekiel 48:21

  The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

• Micah 2:1

  Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

• Micah 2:2

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

• Matthew 21:33

  “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

• Matthew 21:34

  When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

• Matthew 21:35

  The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

• Matthew 21:36

  Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

• Matthew 21:37

  But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

• Matthew 21:38

  But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

• Matthew 21:39

  So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

• Matthew 21:40

  When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

• Matthew 21:41

  They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

• Luke 20:9

  He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

• Luke 20:10

  At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

• Luke 20:11

  He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

• Luke 20:12

  He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

• Luke 20:13

  The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

• Luke 20:14

  “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

• Luke 20:15

  They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

• Luke 20:16

  He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

• Acts 4:34

  For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

• Acts 5:1

  But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

• Acts 5:2

  and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

• Acts 5:3

  But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

• Acts 5:4

  While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

• Acts 5:5

  Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

• Acts 5:6

  The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

• Acts 5:7

  About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

• Acts 5:8

  Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”