Inheritance: 3 definitions
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: archive.org: Smith's Bible DictionaryInheritance refers to:鈥擺Heir]
: archive.org: Nave's Topical BibleInheritance definition and references: 鈥揚rovisions for inheritance under Levirate marriages Genesis 38:7-11; Numbers 36:6-9; Deuteronomy 25:5-10; Ruth 3:1-8; 4:7-17
鈥�Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 15:3; 21:9-11;
24:36; 25:5,6; 48:21,22; Numbers 27:6-11; Deuteronomy 21:15-17; 1 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 21:3; Job 42:15;
Proverbs 17:2; 20:21; Ecclesiastes 2:18,19; Jeremiah 32:6-8; Ezekiel 46:16-18; Luke 15:12,25-31; Galatians 3:15; Hebrews
9:16,17
鈥揝别别 Will
鈥揝别别 Heir
鈥�Figurative Psalms 37:29; Acts 20:32; 26:18; Romans 8:16,17; Ephesians
1:11-14; Titus 3:7; Hebrews 1:14
鈥揝别别 Firstborn
鈥揝别别 Heir
鈥揝别别 Will
Inheritance refers to:鈥擳he laws and observances which determine the acquisition and regulate the devolution of property, are among the influences which affect the vital interests of states; and it is therefore of high consequence to ascertain the nature and bearing of the laws and observances relating to this subject which come to us with the sanction of the Bible. We may also premise that, in a condition of society such as that in which we now live, wherein the two diverging tendencies which favor immense accumulations on the one hand, and lead to poverty and pauperism on the other, are daily becoming more and more decided, disturbing, and baneful, there seems to be required on the part of those who take Scripture as their guide, a careful study of the foundations of human society, and of the laws of property, as they are developed in the divine records which contain the revealed will of God.
That will, in truth, as it is the source of all created things, and especially of the earth and its intelligent denizen, man, so is it the original foundation of property, and of the laws by which its inheritance should be regulated.
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Full-text (+279): Dayabhaga, Adayika, Apratibandha, Thina, Vibhaga, Dayadya, Vibhakti, Uttaradhikara, Riktha, Zelophehad, Vamsagata, Auddharika, Vibhagadharma, Mahlah, Anyonyavibhaga, Avibhaga, Dayajja, Rikthada, Heir, Rikthagraha.
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Search found 202 books and stories containing Inheritance; (plurals include: Inheritances). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Pistis Sophia (by G.R.S. Mead)
Chapter 86 < [The Second Book of Pistis Sophia]
Chapter 91 < [The Second Book of Pistis Sophia]
Chapter 122 < [A Third Book]
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (by Philip Schaff)
Chapter XXXV - Of the Inheritance of the Property of Martyrs and Confessors < [The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius.]
Chapter IX - Cheating and dishonest ways of making money are utterly unfit for clerics whose duty is to serve all < [Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons.]
How the whole and the sick are to be admonished < [The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great.]
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite (by John Parker)
Caput VII: Those fallen asleep < [Ecclesiastical Hierarchy]
Caput I: The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy < [Ecclesiastical Hierarchy]
Caput III: The Synaxis < [Ecclesiastical Hierarchy]
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 8.4-7 < [Section II - The Eighteen Heads of Dispute enumerated]
Verse 9.201 < [Section XXVI - Disqualifications to Inheritance]
Verse 10.115 < [Section XIV - Sources of Income (vitt膩gama)]
A Cyclopedia of Biblical literature (by John Kitto)
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (by G.R.S. Mead)
Summary of the Contents of the So-Called Pistis Sophia Treatise < [The Gnosis According to Its Friends]
The Askew and Bruce Codices < [The Gnosis According to Its Friends]
Some Forgotten Sayings < [The Gnosis According to Its Friends]