137 verses

Gen 4: 1

(NIV)
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.’
(ESV)
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”

Gen 14: 19

(NIV)
and he blessed Abram, saying,

‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Creator of heaven and earth.
(ESV)
And he blessed him and said,

Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;

Gen 14: 22

(NIV)
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, ‘With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
(ESV)
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

Gen 25: 10

(NIV)
the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
(ESV)
the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.

Gen 33: 19

(NIV)
For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
(ESV)
And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

Gen 39: 1

(NIV)
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

(ESV)
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

Gen 47: 19

(NIV)
Why should we perish before your eyes – we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.’

(ESV)
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Gen 47: 20

(NIV)
So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
(ESV)
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s.

Gen 47: 22

(NIV)
However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allowance Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

(ESV)
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

Gen 47: 23

(NIV)
Joseph said to the people, ‘Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.
(ESV)
Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Gen 49: 30

(NIV)
the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
(ESV)
in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Gen 50: 13

(NIV)
they carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
(ESV)
for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Exod 15: 16

(NIV)
terror and dread will fall on them.
By the power of your arm
they will be as still as a stone –
until your people pass by, Lord,
until the people you bought pass by.
(ESV)
Terror and dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom you have purchased.

Exod 21: 2

(NIV)
‘If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
(ESV)
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

Lev 22: 11

(NIV)
But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.
(ESV)
but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

Lev 25: 14

(NIV)
‘“If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.
(ESV)
And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

Lev 25: 15

(NIV)
You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.
(ESV)
You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.

Lev 25: 28

(NIV)
But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

(ESV)
But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

Lev 25: 30

(NIV)
If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.
(ESV)
If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

Lev 25: 44

(NIV)
‘“Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
(ESV)
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.

Lev 25: 45

(NIV)
You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.
(ESV)
You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.

Lev 25: 50

(NIV)
They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.
(ESV)
He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.

Lev 27: 24

(NIV)
In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.
(ESV)
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.

Num 5: 14

(NIV)
and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure – or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure –
(ESV)
and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,

Num 5: 15

(NIV)
then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.

(ESV)
then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Num 5: 18

(NIV)
After the priest has made the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
(ESV)
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Num 5: 25

(NIV)
The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar.
(ESV)
And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar.

Num 5: 29

(NIV)
‘“This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,
(ESV)
This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

Num 5: 30

(NIV)
or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to make her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her.
(ESV)
or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall carry out for her all this law.

Num 25: 11

(NIV)
‘Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honour among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.
(ESV)
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

Deut 28: 68

(NIV)
The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

(ESV)
And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Deut 29: 20

(NIV)
The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.
(ESV)
The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Deut 32: 6

(NIV)
Is this the way you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,
who made you and formed you?
(ESV)
Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?

Josh 24: 32

(NIV)
And Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

(ESV)
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

Ruth 4: 4

(NIV)
I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.’

‘I will redeem it,’ he said.

(ESV)
So I thought I would tell you of it and say, Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”

Ruth 4: 5

(NIV)
Then Boaz said, ‘On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.’

(ESV)
Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”

Ruth 4: 8

(NIV)
So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, ‘Buy it yourself.’ And he removed his sandal.

(ESV)
So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.

Ruth 4: 9

(NIV)
Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, ‘Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.
(ESV)
Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.

Ruth 4: 10

(NIV)
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his home town. Today you are witnesses!’

(ESV)
Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”

2Sam 12: 3

(NIV)
but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

(ESV)
but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

2Sam 24: 21

(NIV)
Araunah said, ‘Why has my lord the king come to his servant?’

‘To buy your threshing-floor,’ David answered, ‘so that I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.’

(ESV)
And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be averted from the people.”

2Sam 24: 24

(NIV)
But the king replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.’

So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.
(ESV)
But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

1Kgs 16: 24

(NIV)
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.

(ESV)
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

2Kgs 10: 16

(NIV)
Jehu said, ‘Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.’ Then he made him ride in his chariot.

(ESV)
And he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he had him ride in his chariot.

2Kgs 12: 12

(NIV)
the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the Lord, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.

(ESV)
and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the Lord, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house.

2Kgs 19: 31

(NIV)
For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.
‘The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
(ESV)
For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.

2Kgs 22: 6

(NIV)
the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also make them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
(ESV)
(that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

1Chr 21: 24

(NIV)
But King David replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.’

(ESV)
But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

2Chr 34: 11

(NIV)
They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to purchase dressed stone, and timber for joists and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.

(ESV)
They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.

Neh 5: 8

(NIV)
and said: ‘As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!’ They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.

(ESV)
and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

Neh 5: 16

(NIV)
Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we did not acquire any land.

(ESV)
I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

Job 5: 2

(NIV)
Resentment kills a fool,
and envy slays the simple.
(ESV)
Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.

Ps 69: 9

(NIV)
for zeal for your house consumes me,
and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
(ESV)
For zeal for your house has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Ps 74: 2

(NIV)
Remember the nation you purchased long ago,
the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed –
Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
(ESV)
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

Ps 78: 54

(NIV)
And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had taken.
(ESV)
And he brought them to his holy land,
to the mountain which his right hand had won.

Ps 79: 5

(NIV)
How long, Lord? Will you be angry for ever?
How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
(ESV)
How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Ps 119: 139

(NIV)
My zeal wears me out,
for my enemies ignore your words.
(ESV)
My zeal consumes me,
because my foes forget your words.

Ps 139: 13

(NIV)
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
(ESV)
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

Prov 1: 5

(NIV)
let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance –
(ESV)
Let the wise hear and increase in learning,
and the one who understands obtain guidance,

Prov 4: 5

(NIV)
Get wisdom, get understanding;
do not forget my words or turn away from them.
(ESV)
Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
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