Thematic Bible: By purchase


Thematic Bible



So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine. Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals


Jacob fled [to] the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over [sheep]. Verse ConceptsSheepWagesIsrael FleeingOther Wivessyria

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." Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningOffspringPurchasingTownWidowsNamed Wives

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]. Verse ConceptsCivil LibertyExpensiveCitizensReligious Freedomserenity

And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard. Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsExecutionersCommerce

And all the men of his house, {those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner}, were circumcised with him. Verse ConceptsGroups Of Slaves