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Bible Verses About Inheritance Issues

This collection includes 50 passages about Inheritance Issues. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Scripture Passages

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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

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Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

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To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.

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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

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For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

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Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

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And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

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For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

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But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

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And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

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Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

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And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

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And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren.

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And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

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And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

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Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

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And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

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And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

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And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

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Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

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Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

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And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

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

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But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

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The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

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Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

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But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.

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But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

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But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

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And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

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