Thematic Bible: By purchase
Thematic Bible
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I gat her for fifteen silverlings, and for a homer and a half of barley,
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
And moreover, Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, do I take unto me to wife to stir up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that his name be not put out from among his brethren, and from the gate of his city: ye are witnesses this day."
Roman empire » Citizenship in » By purchase
And the high captain answered, "With a great sum obtained I this freedom." And Paul said, "I was freeborn."
Servants » Slaves or bond » By purchase
And the Midianites sold him in Egypt unto Potiphar, a lord of Pharaoh's: and his chief marshal.
And all the men in his house, whether they were born in his house or bought with money, though they were strangers, were circumcised with him.