Quotes about Acquisition
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
— Marquis de Sade
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”
— Genesis 34:10
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
— Genesis 34:28
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
— Genesis 38:6
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
— Genesis 47:20
Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.
— Genesis 47:23
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
— Genesis 49:32
Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
— Leviticus 25:24
Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
— Leviticus 25:26
You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
— Leviticus 25:45
Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.
— Numbers 31:53
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
— Deuteronomy 20:14