Quotes about Purchase
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
— Genesis 23:16
At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
— Ruth 4:9
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
— Genesis 33:19
This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
— Genesis 25:10
How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.
— Martin Luther
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
— Genesis 41:57
Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—
— Jeremiah 32:11
They imagined that with a rightly honored commodity they could "purchase" security in a world that seemed devoid of the creator. "Godmaking" amid anxiety is a standard human procedure! But
— Walter Brueggemann
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
— Exodus 12:44
So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
— Jeremiah 32:9
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
— Hosea 3:2