'Buy' in the Bible
And every land came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.
Then he said, "Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die."
And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those [other people] who went [as well], for there was famine in the land of Canaan.
And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, "From where have you come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
And it happened [that] as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us."
{If you will send} our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you,
And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,
Now, other money we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."
And when our father said, 'Buy a little food for us,'
Why should we die in front of you, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, then we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Then give us seed and we shall live and not die, and the land will not become desolate."
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for [there was] an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they {lived on} the allotment that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land.