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So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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Verse 25. Six hundred sicles, and so forth This was the price of the whole place on which the temple was afterwards built: but the price of the oxen was fifty sicles of silver. 2 Kennicott. 24:24. Challoner.—Or the fifty sicles were given for the threshing-floor alone. Calmet. D.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.
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