7 occurrences

'Possession' in the Bible

“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession,

Verse ConceptsInvasionsmold

As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

Verse ConceptsTownReal EstateReversion Of Things

But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.

Verse ConceptsForeignersMaking SlavesLaws Restricting ForeignersPropertyImmigrantsAliens

You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtPropertyslavery

In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

Verse ConceptsYear Of JubileeReversion Of Things

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