Thematic Bible: By purchase
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Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.
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And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.
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Jacob fled [to] the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over [sheep].
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And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his [birth] place. You [are] witnesses today."
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Roman empire » Citizenship in » By purchase
And the military tribune replied, "I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money." And Paul said, "But I indeed was born [a citizen].
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Servants » Slaves or bond » By purchase
And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard.
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And all the men of his house, {those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner}, were circumcised with him.
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