'Purchase' in the Bible

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years.

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you—those born in your land. These may become your property.

If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price.

You may purchase food from them with silver, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.

I took the purchase agreement—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions and the open copy—

and gave the purchase agreement to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah. I did this in the sight of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement, and all the Judeans sitting in the guard’s courtyard.

‘This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these scrolls—this purchase agreement with the sealed copy and this open copy—and put them in an earthen storage jar so they will last a long time.

“After I had given the purchase agreement to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord: