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Merchants exchange metals, animals, ivory, purple cloth, and gems beside an empty broker’s ledger and chain.
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Ezekiel 27:12-16

Trade of metals and distant wares

A Lament for Tyre’s Merchant Ship · Ezekiel 27

Story guide: The empty chain acknowledges the text’s human trafficking without depicting or commodifying enslaved people.

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12Tarshish was your trader because of your abundant wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they paid for your wares.

13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech—they were your traders; they exchanged human lives and articles of bronze for your wares.

14From Beth-togarmah they traded horses, horsemen, and mules for your wares.

15The sons of Dedan were your merchants. Many coastlands were the market of your hand; they brought back ivory tusks and ebony as your payment.

16Aram traded with you because of your many products, giving turquoise, purple, embroidered cloth, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

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