'Buying' in the Bible

Boaz continued, "On the very day you buy the field from Naomi, you're also "buying" Ruth the Moabite woman, the wife of her dead husband, so the family name may be continued as an inheritance."

including paying the carpenters, builders, and masons, as well as buying timber and pre-carved stone to repair the Temple.

I accused them, "To the best of our ability, we've been buying back our fellow Jews who had been sold to foreigners. Even now you're selling your fellow countrymen, only for them to be sold back to us!" They kept quiet and never spoke a word.

"This is bad, bad," says whoever is buying but then he brags as he walks away after the sale.

buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.'

Then Jesus went into the Temple, threw out everyone who was selling and buying in the Temple, and overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

"While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

So it was in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.