Bible Verses About Land

And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.

From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is paid to the kings, and it is become as a law, except the land of the priests, which was free from this covenant.

And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.

The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.

But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.

If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.

The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.

If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.

If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.

But if some time after, the priest shall reckon the money according to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the price shall be abated.

And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.

And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it, may not redeem it any more.

For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertaineth to the right of the priest.

If a field that was bought, and not of a man's ancestors' possession, be sanctified to the Lord:

The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of years, unto the jubilee. And he that had vowed, shall give that to the Lord.

But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.

Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said: