When the most highest gave the nations an inheritance, and divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of the nations fast by the multitude of the children of Israel.

And the LORD said unto him, "This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it unto thy seed. I have showed it thee before thine eyes: but thou shalt not go over thither."

{A Psalm of David} The earth is the LORD's, and all that therein is: the compass of the world, and all that dwell therein.

All the whole heavens are the LORD's; but the earth hath he given unto the children of men.

And shall break in upon Judah, increasing in power, till he get him by the throat. He shall fill also the wideness of thy land with his broad wings, O Immanuel."

I am he that made the earth, the men, and the cattle that are upon the ground, with my great power and outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it pleased me.

A sabbath

Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in her Sabbaths.

"Six years thou shalt sow thy land and gather in the fruits thereof:

to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her pleasure of her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath until she had fulfilled seventy years.

General references

"Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, 'When ye be come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you,

"Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, 'When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

At the end of seven years thou shalt make a free year.