Bible Verses About Commerce

and speaketh unto Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, `Only--if thou wouldest hear me--I have given the money of the field--accept from me, and I bury my dead there.'

And Ephron answereth Abraham, saying to him,

`My lord, hear me: the land--four hundred shekels of silver; between me and thee, what is it? --thy dead bury.'

And Abraham hearkeneth unto Ephron, and Abraham weigheth to Ephron the silver which he hath spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.

he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'

and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,

and Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren, for he said, `Lest mischief meet him.'

And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him--face to the earth.

And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, `From whence have ye come?' and they say, `From the land of Canaan--to buy food.'

And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him,

and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.'

And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;

we are all of us sons of one man, we are right men; thy servants have not been spies;'

and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'

and they say, `Thy servants are twelve brethren; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one is with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

And Joseph saith unto them, `This is that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye are spies,

by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this--except by your young brother coming hither;

send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not--Pharaoh liveth! surely ye are spies;'

and he removeth them unto charge three days.

And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

if ye are right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn for the famine of your houses,

and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

And they say one unto another, `Verily we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.'