OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 32:9

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I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

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Verse 9. Silver. Hebrew “seventeen sicles of silver.” Bible.—Coin was not yet used. Calmet.

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A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

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