¹⁶ 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,^(A) according to the weight current among the merchants.^(B)

²⁸ So when the Midianite^(A) merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern^(B) and sold^(C) him for twenty shekels^[a] of silver^(D) to the Ishmaelites,^(E) who took him to Egypt.^(F)

¹⁵ not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.

²⁸ Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue^[a]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.

¹⁴ not including the revenues brought in by merchants and traders. Also all the kings of Arabia^(A) and the governors of the territories brought gold and silver to Solomon.