Bible Verses About Land

And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.

All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

The children of Heth answered, saying:

My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.

Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:

And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.

That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.

Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.

Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will I bury my dead in it.

And Ephron answered:

My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.

And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof, in all its limits round about,

Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao's hands:

And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions.

Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,

That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.