Bible Verses About Commerce

They had no idea that Yosef understood them, since an interpreter was translating for them.

Yosef turned away from them and wept; then he returned and spoke to them. He took Shim'on from among them and put him in prison before their eyes.

Next he ordered that their containers be filled with grain, that every man's money be put back in his pack and that they be given provisions for the journey. When these things had been done for them,

they loaded their grain on their donkeys and departed.

But at camp that night, as one of them opened his pack to give fodder to his donkey, he noticed his money - there it was, just inside his pack.

He said to his brothers, "My money has been restored - there it is, right in my pack!"At that, their hearts sank; they turned, trembling, to one another and said, "What is this that God has done to us?"

They returned to Ya'akov their father in the land of Kena'an and told him all that had happened to them.

"The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us. He took us for spies in his country.

We said to him, 'We are upright men, we're not spies;

we are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is gone, and the youngest stayed with our father in the land of Kena'an.'

But the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Here is how I will know that you are upright men: leave one of your brothers with me, take grain to relieve the famine in your homes, and go on your way;

but bring your youngest brother to me. By this I will know that you aren't spies, but are upright men; then I will return your brother to you; and you will do business in the land.'"

Rather, use an honest balance-scale, honest weights, an honest bushel dry-measure and an honest gallon liquid-measure; I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Observe all my regulations and rulings, and do them; I am ADONAI.'"

Hiram sent some of his own servants, experienced sailors who understood the sea, to serve with Shlomo's servants.

They went to Ofir and took from there gold, fourteen tons of it, which they brought back to King Shlomo.

All King Shlomo's drinking vessels were of gold; and all the utensils in the House of the L'vanon Forest were of pure gold; for in Shlomo's time, silver was regarded as having little value.

The king had ships that could go to Tarshish with Huram's servants; once every three years the "Tarshish" ships came in, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks.

So King Shlomo surpassed all the kings on earth in both wealth and wisdom.

Those who go down to the sea in ships, plying their trade on the great ocean,

saw the works of ADONAI, his wonders in the deep.

For at his word the storm-wind arose, lifting up towering waves.

The sailors were raised up to the sky, then plunged into the depths. At the danger, their courage failed them,

they reeled and staggered like drunk men, and all their skill was swallowed up.

In their trouble they cried to ADONAI, and he rescued them from their distress.