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Ownership and Property in the Old Testament Economy

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

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It was at creation that God the Creator committed the world and its resources to humanity (Gen. 1:2829). It was because the man and the woman were made in the image of God that they were commanded to subdue the created order and to exercise dominion over the whole of it. As a result, God granted dominion to this first human pair under his law, but he did not grant his sovereignty to them, for God alone is Lord and the only sovereign over all.

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