Quotes about Property

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

Now the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”