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'Inheritance' in the Bible

But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to him, {as it is this day}.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesIron, Figurative Use OfIronPeople Of God, In OtSevere AfflictionsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

"And Yahweh was angry with me {because of you}, and he swore {that I would not cross the Jordan} and {that I would not go to the good land} that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityGod Angry With Individuals

to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you {from before you}, to bring you [and] to give to you their land [as] an inheritance, as [it is] this day.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

And I prayed to Yahweh, and I said, 'Lord Yahweh, you must not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out from Egypt with a strong hand.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, As RedeemerGod, Majesty OfGod, Power OfPeople Of God, In OtRedemption, In Everyday LifeAbundance, SpiritualGod's HandGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

For they [are] your people and your inheritance whom you brought with your great power and with your outstretched arm.'

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfArmsGod, Power OfStrength Of GodPeople Belong To God

Therefore {there was not} for Levi an allotment or an inheritance [along] with his brothers; [rather] Yahweh [is] his inheritance [just] as Yahweh your God {promised} to him.

Verse ConceptsGod Is My PortionNo Earthly Inheritance

For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.

Verse ConceptsRestNever Giving Up

But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely,

Verse ConceptsSafetyCrossing Into The Promised LandTime Of Peace

And you shall rejoice {before} Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you.

Verse ConceptsNo Earthly Inheritance

And [as to] the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance [along] with you.

Verse ConceptsMastersNeglectNeglecting PeopleNo Earthly Inheritancefriendliness

And [so] the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien [also may come] and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}, and {they may eat their fill}, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all [of] the work of your hand that you undertake."

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

Nevertheless, there shall not be among you a poor [person], because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as] an inheritance, to take possession of it.

Verse ConceptsPoor PeopleBlessings, To IsraelLand, As A Divine Responsibility

"And there shall not be for the Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, a plot of ground and an inheritance with Israel, [rather] they may eat an offering made by fire [as] their inheritance, for Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPriests, Institution In Ot TimesNo Earthly InheritancePriestly InheritancePermitted To Eat Offeringspriests

And there shall not be for them an inheritance [of land] in the midst of his brothers; [rather] Yahweh is his inheritance, [just] as he {promised} to them.

Verse ConceptsGod Is My PortionNo Earthly Inheritance

[Do this] so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance and [thereby] bloodguilt would be on you.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityInnocent BloodSheddingResponsibility For Blood Shed

But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMassacresbreathingbreathgenocide

[nevertheless] {it will be the case that} on the day of bestowing his inheritance upon his sons, he will not be allowed to treat as [the] firstborn son the son of the beloved [wife] {in preference to} the son of the disliked [wife], [who is] the firstborn [son].

Verse ConceptsReal EstateBirthrights

his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God [is] one that is [being] hung; so you shall not defile your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance."

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

her first husband who sent her [away] is not allowed {to take her again} to become a wife to him after she has {been defiled}, for that [is] a detestable thing {before} Yahweh, and [so] you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Perverse SexualitySecond MarriageDefilementHusband And WifeWifeA Good Husbandspousemarraige

{And when} Yahweh your God gives rest to you from all your enemies from around [about you] in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance to take possession of it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget!"

Verse ConceptsBlottingBlotted OutTime Of Peace

"{And then} when you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it,

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityFirst fruits

And we took their land and gave it as [an] inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to [the] half-tribe of Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him {in the presence of all Israel}, "Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalFighting TogetherStrength Of PeopleGod Gave The LandBe Courageous!Be Strong!Courage And Strength

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