Property
13 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
9 sections
Personal in Slaves
- Exodus 21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
Personal: Dedicated to God, Redemption of
- Leviticus 27:9–13 If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy. …
- Leviticus 27:26–33 But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s. …
Personal: Hired
- Exodus 22:14–15 If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution. …
Personal: Laws Concerning Trespass of, and Violence To
- Exodus 21:28–36 If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible. …
- Exodus 22:9 In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay …
- Deuteronomy 23:25 When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Personal: Loaned
- Exodus 22:10–15 If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching, …
Personal: Rights In, Sacred
- Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- Deuteronomy 5:21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Personal: Rights of Redemption of
- Jeremiah 32:7 Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
Personal: Sold for Debt
- Proverbs 22:26–27 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. …
Personal: Strayed, to be Returned to Owner
- Leviticus 6:3–4 or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit— …
- Deuteronomy 22:1–3 If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother. …
Related topics
Property in Real EstateProperty in Real Estate by AbsenceProperty in Real Estate in Villages, InalienableTrespass of an OxRestitutionRedemption of Persons or Property
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.