Quotes about Ownership
He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
- Genesis 32:17
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”
- Genesis 34:10
Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”
- Genesis 34:23
From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household on account of him. The LORD’s blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.
- Genesis 39:5
You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
- Genesis 45:10
The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
- Genesis 46:32
When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
- Genesis 47:18
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
- Genesis 47:20
And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
- Genesis 48:5
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
- Genesis 49:32
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- Exodus 12:44
“Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”
- Exodus 13:2