Genesis 23:15
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| Overview - Genesis 23 | |
| 1 | The age and death of Sarah. |
| 3 | The purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah; |
| 19 | where Sarah is buried. |
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Genesis 23:15 (King James Version)
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
- is worth
- Though the words "is worth" are not in the Text, yet they are clearly implied, to adapt the Hebrew to the English idiom. A shekel, according to the general opinion, was equal in value to about 2s
- 6d. of our money, but according to Dr. Prideaux, 3s
- English. In those early times, money was given in weight;
- for it is said (ver 16.) that "Abraham weighed," {wayishkal,} the silver; and hence, we find that it was a certain weight which afterwards passed as a current coin; for the word shekel is not only used to denote a piece of sliver, but also to weigh.
- shekels
- Exodus 30:15 ; Ezekiel 45:12