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A land for all to own Nm 32:5. Bible and Reality A Land for All Design: J. L. Caravias sj. See: the heavens, the earth and all that is in it, everything belongs to Yahweh, your God. Dt 10:14. Fill the earth and subdue it… To you I give it… It will be for your food.
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A landfor allto own Nm 32:5 Bible and Reality A Land for All Design:J. L. Caravias sj
See: the heavens, the earth and all that is in it, everything belongs to Yahweh, your God. Dt 10:14 Fill the earth and subdue it… To you I give it… It will be for your food. Gn 1:28-29
I have come down to bring my people to a land flowing with milk and honey. Ex 3:8
Yahweh your God is bringing you into a fine country, a land of streams and springs, of waters that well up from the deep in valleys and hills,a land of wheat and barley, of vines, of figs, of pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, of honey.Dt 8:7-8
The country must be shared out proportionately according to the number of those inscribed. to the large in number you will give a large area of land, to the small in number a small area, depending on its larger or smaller number. Nm 26:53-56
You will each have a fair share of this inheritance, since I swore to your fathers that I would give it to them. Ez 47:14
Remember Yahweh, your God, the one who gave you power to become prosperous.Dt 8:18 There must be no poor among you. Dt 15:4
The land shall not be sold forever, for the land belongs to me and you are only strangers and guests of mine. Lv 25:23
Disaster for those who plot evil, who lie in bed planning mischief! No sooner is it dawn than they do it, since they have the power to do so.Mi 2:1 Seizing the fields that they covet, they take over houses as well, owner and house they seize alike, the man himself as well as his inheritance. Mi 2:2
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is nowhere left and they are the sole inhabitants of the country.Is 5:8