Servant: Bond: Bought and Sold

Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.

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.

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

…of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls of slaves.