18 occurrences

'Possession' in the Bible

When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

Verse ConceptsInvasionsmold

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In Otethics, personalClansCivil LibertyHolidayProclaimingReversion Of ThingsFreedom

In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Verse ConceptsYearsYear Of JubileeReversion Of Things

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Verse Conceptsredeemed

If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialPoverty, Remedies ForRedemption, In Everyday Life

then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

Verse ConceptsAccording To TimeReturning to their landbalance

But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

Verse ConceptsYearsReversion Of Things

Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsTownReal EstateReversion Of Things

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Verse ConceptsPermission To Return Home

Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

Verse ConceptsForeignersMaking SlavesLaws Restricting ForeignersPropertyImmigrantsAliens

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtPropertyslavery

And if a man shall sanctify unto Jehovah part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley'shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsGrainSeedWeights And Measures, DistancesWeights And Measures, DryAccording To ThingsComparative MeasuresValuesales

but the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

Verse ConceptsPriests PossessingHoly Land

And if he sanctify unto Jehovah a field which he hath bought, which is not of the field of his possession;

Verse ConceptsValue

In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.

Verse ConceptsYear Of JubileeReversion Of Things

Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto Jehovah of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsNot Redeemed

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