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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 17:12, 13, 23, 27

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring. / Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant. / On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 20:16

And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 23:9, 13

to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.” / and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 31:15

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 37:28

So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 42:25–35

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out, / and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed. / At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 43:12–23

Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake. / Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once. / May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 44:1–8

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack. / Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed. / At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.

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Money: Silver Used As Genesis 47:14–18

Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace. / When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!” / “Then bring me your livestock,” said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock.”

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Money: Silver Used As Exodus 12:44

But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

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Money: Silver Used As Exodus 21:11, 21, 34, 35

If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment. / However, if the servant gets up after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the servant is his property. / the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

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Money: Silver Used As Exodus 22:7, 17, 25

If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. / If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin. / If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

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Money: Silver Used As Exodus 30:16

Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”

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Money: Silver Used As Leviticus 22:11

But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

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Money: Silver Used As Leviticus 25:37, 51

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit. / If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

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Money: Silver Used As Leviticus 27:15, 18

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him. / But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.

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Money: Silver Used As Numbers 3:48–51

Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.” / So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites. / He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

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Money: Silver Used As Numbers 18:16

You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

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Money: Silver Used As Deuteronomy 2:6, 28

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’” / You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

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Money: Silver Used As Deuteronomy 14:25, 26

then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. / Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.

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Money: Silver Used As Deuteronomy 21:14

And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

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Money: Silver Used As Deuteronomy 23:19

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

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Money: Silver Used As Judges 5:19

Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.

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Money: Silver Used As Judges 16:18

When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

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Money: Silver Used As Judges 17:4

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

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Money: Silver Used As 1 Kings 21:2, 6, 15

So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.” / Ahab answered, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and told him, ‘Give me your vineyard for silver, or if you wish, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ And he replied, ‘I will not give you my vineyard!’” / When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, who refused to give it to you for silver. For Naboth is no longer alive, but dead.”

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Kings 5:26

But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Kings 12:4

Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Kings 15:20

Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Kings 22:7, 9

But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.” / And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Kings 23:35

So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Chronicles 24:5, 11, 14

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste. / Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance. / When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada to make with it the articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other objects of gold and silver. Throughout the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were presented regularly in the house of the LORD.

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Money: Silver Used As 2 Chronicles 34:9, 14, 17

So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem. / While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD written by Moses. / They have paid out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have put it into the hands of the supervisors and workers.”

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Money: Silver Used As Ezra 3:7

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

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Money: Silver Used As Ezra 7:17

With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.

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Money: Silver Used As Nehemiah 5:4, 10, 11

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. / I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. / Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”

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Money: Silver Used As Esther 4:7

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

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Money: Silver Used As Job 31:39

if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

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Money: Silver Used As Psalm 15:5

who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

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Money: Silver Used As Proverbs 7:20

He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”

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Money: Silver Used As Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

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Money: Silver Used As Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

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Money: Silver Used As Isaiah 43:24

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

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Money: Silver Used As Isaiah 52:3

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

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Money: Silver Used As Isaiah 55:1, 2

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! / Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

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Money: Silver Used As Jeremiah 32:9, 10, 25, 44

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver. / I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. / Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”

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Money: Silver Used As Lamentations 5:4

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

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Money: Silver Used As Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

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Money: Silver Used As Matthew 25:18, 27

But the servant who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money. / Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.

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Money: Silver Used As Matthew 28:12, 15

And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money / So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

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Money: Silver Used As Mark 14:11

They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

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Money: Silver Used As Luke 9:3

“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.

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Money: Silver Used As Luke 19:15, 23

When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned. / Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’

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Money: Silver Used As Luke 22:5

They were delighted and agreed to give him money.

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Money: Silver Used As Acts 7:16

Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

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Money: Silver Used As Acts 8:20

But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

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