Bible Verses About Commerce

(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

Then he turned from them, and wept, and turned to them againe, and communed with them, and tooke Simeon from among them, and bounde him before their eyes.

So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.

And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.

And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.

Then he sayde vnto his brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen in my sacke. And their heart fayled them, and they were astonished, and sayde one to another, What is this, that God hath done vnto vs?

And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

The man, who is Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.

And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.

We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shall I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,

And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.

You shall haue iust ballances, true weightes, a true Ephah, and a true Hin. I am the Lord your God, which haue brought you out of the lande of Egypt.

Therefore shall ye obserue all mine ordinances, and all my iudgements, and doe them: I am the Lord.

And Hiram sent with the nauie his seruats, that were mariners, and had knowledge of the sea, with the seruants of Salomon.

And they came to Ophir and sette from thence foure hundreth and twentie talents of gold, and brought it to King Salomon.

And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold: for siluer was nothing esteemed in ye dayes of Salomon.

For the Kings ships went to Tarshish with the seruants of Huram, euery three yeere once came the ships of Tarshish, and brought golde, and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacockes.

So King Salomon excelled all the Kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.

They that goe downe to the sea in ships, and occupie by the great waters,

They see the woorkes of the Lord, and his wonders in the deepe.

For he commaundeth and raiseth the stormie winde, and it lifteth vp the waues thereof.

They mount vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble.

They are tossed to and from, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.

Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresse.