Bible Verses About Land Acquisition
Bible verses about Land Acquisition
Discover what the Bible says about land acquisition.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
Most Helpful Verses
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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Scripture Passages
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
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.
And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.