Quotes About Land

These first seven books are Israel's stories of their deep past, or "origins stories" as they are sometimes called. They don't exist for entertainment or for idle curiosities about the past (and definitely not as fodder for children's Bible lessons). They explain how things came to be, why things are the way they are, and most important, how Israel got to be Israel—a kingdom with a land of its own.

Paul transforms a tribal story, of kings, land, and the purity of one group of people, into a global story of God's grace and peace to all nations. As famously confusing as Paul's letters are, if we keep this in mind, a lot of what Paul says will make more sense—such as the following.

I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

Peasants farmed nine-tenths of arable land. Most allotments were cultivated by peasant households within a land commune, one of whose functions was to reallocate arable plots periodically in accordance with changes in family size and composition. (A German critic called periodic redistribution a device 'to ensure an equal right for everyone to die of starvation').

The chemistry of life is an aquatic chemistry. We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

Nevertheless, they were forbidden to buy land from non-Mennonites, except by special permission of the war ministry, since military obligations were based on land ownership.

The new king responded that he had no intention of freeing additional land from the normal military obligations associated with that land. New decrees specified that the old laws would be tightened. Mennonite leaders responded by petitioning the king for a relaxation of prescribed restrictions.

For anyone who would not accept military obligations, no expansion of land ownership would be permitted. For Mennonite families with several sons, there was now little prospect of acquiring more land. Acquisition of land was to be allowed only under special and pre-approved arrangements.

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

During his father Terahís lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your fatherís household, and go to the land I will show you.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.