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• Genesis 23:13

  He 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 23:14

  Ephron 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 23:16

  Abraham 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 37:25

  They 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 37:27

  Come, 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 37:28

  Midianites 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 37:36

  The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

• Genesis 42:2

  He 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 42:3

  Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

• Genesis 42:4

  But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

• Genesis 42:5

  The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:6

  Joseph 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 42:7

  Joseph 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 42:8

  Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

• Genesis 42:9

  Joseph 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 42:10

  They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

• Genesis 42:11

  We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

• Genesis 42:12

  He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

• Genesis 42:13

  They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

• Genesis 42:14

  Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

• Genesis 42:15

  By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

• Genesis 42:16

  Send 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 42:17

  He put them all together into custody for three days.

• Genesis 42:18

  Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

• Genesis 42:19

  If 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 42:20

  Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

• Genesis 42:21

  They said to one 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 42:22

  Reuben 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 42:23

  They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

• Genesis 42:24

  He 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 42:25

  Then 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 42:26

  They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

• Genesis 42:27

  As 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 42:28

  He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

• Genesis 42:29

  They 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 42:31

  We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

• Genesis 42:32

  We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

• Genesis 42:33

  The 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 42:34

  Bring 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 19:36

  You 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 25:17

  You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 24:7

  If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Ruth 4:3

  He 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 5:11

  Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

• 1 Kings 3:6

  Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

• 1 Kings 5:6

  Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

• 1 Kings 5:8

  Hiram 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 cypress timber.

• 1 Kings 5:11

  Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

• 1 Kings 9:26

  King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

• 1 Kings 9:27

  Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 9:28

  They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:11

  The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.

• 1 Kings 10:22

  For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

• 1 Kings 10:29

  A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.

• 1 Kings 22:48

  Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.

• 2 Chronicles 2:15

  “Now therefore the wheat the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;

• 2 Chronicles 8:18

  Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:21

  For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• Nehemiah 3:31

  After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

• Nehemiah 3:32

  Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

• Psalms 107:23

  Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

• Psalms 107:24

  These see Yahweh’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep.

• Psalms 107:25

  For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

• Psalms 107:26

  They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

• Psalms 107:27

  They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

• Psalms 107:28

  Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

• Psalms 107:29

  He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

• Psalms 107:30

  Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

• Proverbs 29:14

  The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

• Proverbs 31:11

  The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

• Isaiah 23:2

  Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

• Isaiah 23:8

  Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

• Isaiah 28:5

  In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;

• Isaiah 45:14

  Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

• Isaiah 60:6

  A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 6:20

  To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”

• Jeremiah 10:9

  There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

• Ezekiel 22:13

  “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

• Ezekiel 27:8

  The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.

• Ezekiel 27:12

  Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.

• Ezekiel 27:13

  Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.

• Ezekiel 27:14

  They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and war horses and mules.

• Ezekiel 27:15

  The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.

• Ezekiel 27:16

  Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.

• Ezekiel 27:17

  Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.

• Ezekiel 27:18

  Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

• Ezekiel 27:19

  Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.

• Ezekiel 27:20

  Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

• Ezekiel 27:21

  Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.

• Ezekiel 27:22

  The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

• Ezekiel 27:23

  Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.

• Ezekiel 27:24

  These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

• Ezekiel 27:25

  The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

• Ezekiel 28:13

  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.

• Ezekiel 28:16

  By the abundance of your traffic they filled your insides with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

• Jonah 1:3

  But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

• Nahum 3:16

  You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

• Matthew 11:16

  “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

• Acts 21:2

  Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.

• Acts 27:2

  Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

• Acts 27:6

  There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.

• Acts 27:37

  In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

• Revelation 18:3

  For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

• Revelation 18:11

  The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;

• Revelation 18:12

  merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

• Revelation 18:13

  and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.

• Revelation 18:19

  They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.