Bible Verses About Money

Take twice the amount of money with you; and return the money that came back with you in your packs - it could have been an oversight.

Yes, and take your brother too; and get ready; and go again to the man.

May El Shaddai give you favor in the man's sight, so that he will release to you your other brother as well as Binyamin. As for me, if I must lose my children, lose them I will."

The men took that gift, and they took twice the money with them, and Binyamin; then they prepared, went down to Egypt and stood before Yosef.

When Yosef saw Binyamin with them, he said to his household manager, "Take the men inside the house, kill the animals and prepare the meat. These men will dine with me at noon."

The man did as Yosef ordered and brought the men into Yosef's house.

Upon being ushered inside Yosef's house, the men became fearful. They said, "It's because of the money that was returned in our packs the first time that we have been brought inside - so that he can use it as an excuse to attack us, take us as slaves and seize our donkeys too."

So they approached the manager of Yosef's household and spoke to him at the entrance of the house:

"Please, my lord, the first time we indeed came down to buy food;

but when we got to camp, we opened our packs, and there inside our packs was each man's money, the full amount. We have brought it back with us;

moreover, we have brought down other money to buy food. We have no idea who put our money in our packs."

"Stop worrying," he replied, "don't be afraid. Your God and the God of your father put treasure in your packs. As for your money - I was the one who received it."Then he brought Shim'on out to them.

Then he ordered the manager of his household, "Fill the men's packs with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money just inside his pack.

And put my goblet, the silver one, just inside the pack of the youngest, along with his grain money." He did what Yosef told him to do.

At daybreak the men were sent off with their donkeys;

but before they were far from the city Yosef said to his manager, "Up, go after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?

Isn't this the goblet my lord drinks from, indeed the one he uses for divination? What you have done is evil!'"

So he caught up with them and said these words to them.

They replied, "Why does my lord speak this way? Heaven forbid that we should do such a thing!

Why, the money we found inside our packs we brought back to you from the land of Kena'an! So how would we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

Yosef collected all the money there was in Egypt and Kena'an in exchange for the grain they bought, and put the money in Pharaoh's treasury.

When all the money in Egypt had been spent, and likewise in Kena'an, all the Egyptians approached Yosef and said, "Give us something to eat, even though we have no money; why should we die before your eyes?"

Yosef replied, "Give me your livestock. If you don't have money, I will give you food in exchange for your livestock."

So they brought Yosef their livestock; and Yosef gave them food in exchange for the horses, flocks, cattle and donkeys -all that year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

When that year was over, they approached Yosef again and said to him, "We won't hide from my lord that all our money is spent, and the herds of livestock belong to my lord. We have nothing left, as my lord can see, but our bodies and our land.