Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.

You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.

So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

We're eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!"

They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

This is what she said to him: "That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

For we have been sold -- both I and my people -- to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king."