TOPICAL BIBLE
Commerce
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Genesis 23:13He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”Genesis 23:14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,Genesis 23:15“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”Genesis 23:16Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.Genesis 37:25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.Genesis 37:27Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.Genesis 37:28Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.Genesis 37:36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.Genesis 42:2He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”Genesis 42:3Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.Genesis 42:4But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”Genesis 42:5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.Genesis 42:6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.Genesis 42:7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”Genesis 42:8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.Genesis 42:9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”Genesis 42:10They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.Genesis 42:11We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”Genesis 42:12He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”Genesis 42:13They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”Genesis 42:14Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’Genesis 42:15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.Genesis 42:16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”Genesis 42:17He put them all together into custody for three days.Genesis 42:18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.Genesis 42:19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.Genesis 42:20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.Genesis 42:21They said one to another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”Genesis 42:22Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”Genesis 42:23They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.Genesis 42:24He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.Genesis 42:25Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.Genesis 42:26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.Genesis 42:27As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.Genesis 42:28He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”Genesis 42:29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,Genesis 42:30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.Genesis 42:31We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.Genesis 42:32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’Genesis 42:33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.Genesis 42:34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”Leviticus 19:36You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.Leviticus 19:37“‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”Leviticus 25:14“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.Leviticus 25:17You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.Deuteronomy 24:7If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.Ruth 4:3He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.2 Samuel 5:11Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.1 Kings 5:6Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”1 Kings 5:8Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.1 Kings 5:11Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.1 Kings 9:26King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.1 Kings 9:27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.1 Kings 9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.1 Kings 10:11The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.1 Kings 10:28The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.1 Kings 10:29A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, they brought them out by their means.1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn’t go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.2 Chronicles 2:15“Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:
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