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Land roles original After Abram and Lot had gone their separate ways, the Lord said to Abram: Look around to the north, south, east, and west. I will give you and your family all the land you can see. It will be theirs forever! I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and someday it will be easier to count the specks of dust than to count your descendants. Now walk back and forth across the land, because I am giving it to you. Land roles original Abram took down his tents and went to live near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar in honor of the Lord. Genesis 13:14-18 Divine ownership of all land Now if you will faithfully obey me, you will be my very own people. The whole world is mine, but you will be my holy nation and serve me as priests. Moses, that is what you must tell the Israelites. Exodus 19:5-6 No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me —it isn’t your land, and you only live there for a little while. Leviticus 25:23 The earth and everything on it belong to the Lord. The world and its people belong to him. Psalm 24:1 Widow’s land sale he said to the man: Naomi has come back from Moab and is selling the land that belonged to her husband Elimelech. Land roles original  I am telling you about this, since you are his closest relative and have the right to buy the property. If you want it, you can buy it now. These ten men and the others standing here can be witnesses. But if you don’t want the property, let me know, because I am next in line. The man replied, “I will buy it!” “If you do buy it from Naomi,” Boaz told him, “you must also marry Ruth. Then if you have a son by her, the property will stay in the family of Ruth’s first husband.” 

The man answered, “If that’s the case, I don’t want to buy it! That would make problems with the property I already own. You may buy it yourself, because I cannot.” To make a sale legal in those days, one person would take off a sandal and give it to the other. Land roles original  So after the man had agreed to let Boaz buy the property, he took off one of his sandals and handed it to Boaz. Boaz told the town leaders and everyone else: All of you are witnesses that today I have bought from Naomi the property that belonged to Elimelech and his two sons, Chilion and Mahlon. Ruth 4:3-9 Profitable land And since the king is the highest official, he benefits most from the taxes paid on the land. Ecclesiastes 5:9 Mortgaging land to buy food Others said, “During the famine we even had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and homes to them in order to buy grain.” Nehemiah 5:3 Rented land roles original Jesus told the chief priests and leaders to listen to this story: A land owner once planted a vineyard. He built a wall around it and dug a pit to crush the grapes in. He also built a lookout tower. Then he rented out his vineyard and left the country. When it was harvest time, the owner sent some servants to get his share of the grapes. But the renters grabbed those servants. They beat up one, killed one, and stoned one of them to death. He then sent more servants than he did the first time. But the renters treated them in the same way. Finally, the owner sent his own son to the renters, because he thought they would respect him. But when they saw the man’s son, they said, “Someday he will own the vineyard. Let’s kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves.” So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Jesus asked, Land roles original“When the owner of that vineyard comes, what do you suppose he will do to those renters?”

The chief priests and leaders answered, “He will kill them in some horrible way. Land roles original  Then he will rent out his vineyard to people who will give him his share of grapes at harvest time.” Matthew 21:33-41 Jesus then told them this story: A farmer once planted a vineyard. He built a wall around it and dug a pit to crush the grapes in. He also built a lookout tower. Then he rented out his vineyard and left the country. When it was harvest time, he sent a servant to get his share of the grapes. The renters grabbed the servant. They beat him up and sent him away without a thing. The owner sent another servant, but the renters beat him on the head and insulted him terribly. Then the man sent another servant, and they killed him. He kept sending servant after servant. They beat some of them and killed others. The owner had a son he loved very much. Finally, he sent his son to the renters because he thought they would respect him. But they said to themselves, “Someday he will own this vineyard. Let’s kill him! That way we can have it all for ourselves.” So they grabbed the owner’s son and killed him. Then they threw his body out of the vineyard. Land roles original  Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do? He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard. Mark 12:1-9 Jesus told the people this story: Land roles original A man once planted a vineyard and rented it out. Then he left the country for a long time. When it was time to harvest the crop, he sent a servant to ask the renters for his share of the grapes. But they beat up the servant and sent him away without anything. So the owner sent another servant. The renters also beat him up. They insulted him terribly and sent him away without a thing. The owner sent a third servant. He was also beaten terribly and thrown out of the vineyard. The owner then said to himself, “What am I going to do? I know what. I’ll send my son, the one I love so much. They will surely respect him!” When the renters saw the owner’s son, they said to one another, “Someday he will own the vineyard. Let’s kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves.” So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Land roles original Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do? I’ll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard.”

 When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!” Luke 20:9-16 Purchased land The land where he camped was owned by the descendants of Hamor, the father of Shechem. So Jacob paid them one hundred pieces of silver for the property, then he set up his tents and built an altar there to honor the God of Israel. Genesis 33:19-20 The famine became so severe that Joseph finally bought every piece of land in Egypt for the king and made everyone the king’s slaves,  except the priests. Land roles original  The king gave the priests a regular food allowance, so they did not have to sell their land. Genesis 47:20-22 he said to the man: Naomi has come back from Moab and is selling the land that belonged to her husband Elimelech. Ruth 4:3 But David answered, “No! I have to pay you what they’re worth. I can’t offer the Lord my God a sacrifice that I got for nothing.” So David bought the threshing place and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. 2 Samuel 24:24 She knows how to buy land and how to plant a vineyard, and she always works hard. Proverbs 31:16-17 from Hanamel, and so I did. Land roles original The price was seventeen pieces of silver, and I weighed out the full amount on a scale. Jeremiah 32:9 One guest after another started making excuses. The first one said, “I bought some land, and I’ve got to look it over. Please excuse me.” Luke 14:18 Then Judas bought some land with the money he was given for doing that evil thing. He fell headfirst into the field. His body burst open, and all his insides came out. Acts 1:18 Potter’s field Then they had a meeting and decided to buy a field that belonged to someone who made clay pots. They wanted to use it as a graveyard for foreigners. Matthew 27:7

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