Genesis 23:15
15“My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred ashekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” Genesis 24:22
22When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels, Ezekiel 45:12
12 dThe shekel shall be twenty gerahs; ▼ twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. ▼▼A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
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