Thematic Bible: Miscellaneous topics relating to
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Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Trading
When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading.
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besides what he collected from the merchants, traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.
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He plucked off its topmost shoot; he brought it to a land of merchants and planted it in a city of traders.
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"It's worthless! It's worthless!" says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
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You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it."
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But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.'"
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"'Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
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Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Goods
He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.
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He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.
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The Israelites took the women of Midian captives along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.
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All their neighbors assisted them with silver utensils, gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention all the voluntary offerings.
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They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things -- wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
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Then someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
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The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.' So he divided his assets between them.
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Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Merchants
besides what he collected from the merchants, traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.
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When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.
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Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer --
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The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.
Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
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Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Merchandise
Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.
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To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"
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cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble,
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We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.
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The people from Tyre who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah -- and in Jerusalem, of all places!
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Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Barter
So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.
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So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.
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So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed,
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Divination » Miscellaneous topics relating to
So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, 'You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.'
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For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: He shakes arrows, he consults idols, he examines animal livers.
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Joseph said to them, "What did you think you were doing? Don't you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?"
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So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported to him the words of Balak.
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Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.
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the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, "What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place."
Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you will know that I am the Lord.'"
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For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.
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Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.
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