Bible Verses About Commerce

And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning, he spoke to them.

And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.

But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.

And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth,

And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?

And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:

The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.

And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.

We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.

And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways,

And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.

Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.

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

And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.

And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and the vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold. For no account was made of silver in those days.

For the king's ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram, once in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for riches and glory.

¶ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.