¹⁵ and said, ^(A)“What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

¹² Then I said to them, “If it is ^[a]agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they ^(A)weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

¹³ And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^(B)potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.

²⁶ So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and ^(A)conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and ^(B)let not our hand be upon him, for he is ^(C)our brother and ^(D)our flesh.” And his brothers listened. ²⁸ Then ^(E)Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, ^(F)and sold him to the Ishmaelites for ^(G)twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

³² If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master ^(A)thirty shekels of silver, and the ^(B)ox shall be stoned.

⁹ But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Judas Hangs Himself^(A)

^3 (B)Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty ^(C)pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”

And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”

⁵ Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and ^(D)departed, and went and hanged himself.

¹⁴ having eyes full of ^[a]adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. ^(A)They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. ¹⁵ They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of ^(B)Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction ^[a]does not slumber.

³ not ^[a]given to wine, not violent, ^[b]not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not ^[c]covetous;