'Land' in the Bible

“Tell the Israelites: You may eat all these kinds of land animals.

For I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.

“When you enter the land of Canaan that I am giving you as a possession, and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess,

The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there.

Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled.

If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

“When a foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

You must regard the foreigner who lives with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

“You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God who set you apart from the peoples.

Therefore you must distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

You are not to present to the Lord anything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed testicles; you must not sacrifice them in your land.

the One who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh.”

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.”

“You are to celebrate the Lord’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.”

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the Lord.

But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the Lord: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.

Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you—for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.

All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.

Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.

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.

“You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.

“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.

If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

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.

For the Israelites are My slaves. They are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

“Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am Yahweh your God.

I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.

I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

“Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and if they will pay the penalty for their sin,

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them, since I am Yahweh their God.

For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am Yahweh.”