Found 15 Results for: Trade

• and settle down amongst us. Our country is yours; you may till and trade and have your dwelling here. (Genesis 34, 10)

• These are peaceable folk, ready to share our country with us; let us allow them to trade here and to till the land, wide and open as it is, and in need of farming; let us marry their daughters, and give them ours in exchange. (Genesis 34, 21)

• So when he summons you and asks you what is your trade, (Genesis 46, 33)

• your answer must be, Thy servants are shepherds; to that trade we have been brought up from youth, as our fathers were before us. This profession will win you a home in the land of Gessen; the Egyptians hold all shepherd-folk in abhorrence. (Genesis 46, 34)

• How should it set forward his journeyings, that cannot walk? What service should it do, if trade he want, or skill, or good fortune, that is every way unserviceable? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 19)

• At toil repine not; the farmer’s trade is of divine appointment. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 16)

• Disappointed of their trade, the men who worked in flax, combing and weaving it so cunningly; (Isaiah 19, 9)

• Nothing the country-side shews but massacre, nothing the city but faces pinched with famine; prophet and priest are gone, in a land of strangers they must ply their trade✻ now. (Jeremiah 14, 18)

• thou wouldst extend thy trade as far as Chaldaea, where all is for sale, insatiable to the last.✻ (Ezekiel 16, 29)

• Never a cross-roads, never a street, but thou hast set up some brothel for public resort; no harlot thou, to bargain over a hateful trade. (Ezekiel 16, 31)

• Syria, too, for the multitude of thy wares, must trade with thee, exposing in thy mart carbuncles, and purple, and embroidery, and lawn, and silk, and rubies. (Ezekiel 27, 16)

• No prophet am I, but a simple peasant, that grew up to follow Adam’s trade!✻ (Zechariah 13, 5)