'Property' in the Bible

or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears {falsely} {in regard to} any one of these things by which {a person} might commit sin,

{and when} he sins and is guilty, then he shall bring back {the things he had stolen} or {what he had extorted} or {something with which he had been entrusted} or the lost property that he had found,

Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong.

And he is to put the male lamb to death in the place where they put to death the sin-offering and the burned offering, in the holy place; for as the sin-offering is the property of the priest, so is the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.

Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

If a priest acquires a slave as property with his own money, he may eat with him. Those who were born in his house may eat his food.

You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

“In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another.

According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your friend. And he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops [which may be harvested before you must restore the property to him].

Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Or in case a man has no relative [to redeem his property], but he has become more prosperous and has enough to buy it back,

he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.

But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem—a house sold in a city they possess—must be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.

But a field of their cities' pastureland must not be sold, because {it is their property for all time}.

‘Now if your fellow countryman becomes poor and his hand falters with you [that is, he has trouble repaying you for something], then you are to help and sustain him, [with courtesy and consideration] like [you would] a stranger or a temporary resident [without property], so that he may live among you.

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.

For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you—those born in your land. These may become your property.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

‘Again, if a man consecrates to the Lord part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.

Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the Lord out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord.