613 Mitzvot
Property and Property Rights
- Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Lev. 25:23)
(negative).
- Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the
Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be
redeemed at any time (Lev. 25:34) (negative)
- That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year (Lev.
25:29) (affirmative).
- Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deut. 19:14)
- Not to swear falsely in denial of another's property rights (Lev. 19:11)
- Not to deny falsely another's property rights (Lev. 19:11)
- Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deut. 17:16)
- Not to steal personal property (Lev. 19:11)
- To restore that which one took by robbery (Lev. 5:23)
- To return lost property (Deut. 22:1)
- Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to
return it (Deut. 22:3)
