Quotes about Property
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
- Numbers 27:7
Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
- Numbers 27:8
If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
- Numbers 27:9
If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
- Numbers 27:10
The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
- Numbers 35:3
No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
- Numbers 36:7
No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”
- Numbers 36:9
You shall not steal.
- Deuteronomy 5:19
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 19:14
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
- Deuteronomy 23:24
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:6
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:17