'Payment' in the Bible
Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's palace.
This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as "the Lord's cancellation of debts."
You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.
He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.
When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.
All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
You were different from other prostitutes because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!
Will the Lord accept a thousand rams, or ten thousand streams of olive oil? Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion, my offspring -- my own flesh and blood -- for my sin?
Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it." So they weighed out my payment -- thirty pieces of silver.
who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.
who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.