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Originally Posted by 1ofthechosen
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Then there is this Exodus 30:15 "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls."
"The "shekel of the sanctuary" ( Exodus 30:13 ; Numbers 3:47 ) was equal to twenty gerahs ( Ezekiel 45:12 )."So what about this word gerah? Now the gerah my friend is "A gerah Hebrew "גרה" is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, which, according to the Bible, Exodus, 30:13, was equivalent to 1/40th of a shekel. God tells Moses, the payment for life ransom during the census taking is 1/2 a shekel, "which weighs twenty gerahs". This would make a whole gerah equal to 40 shekels. A shekel is 180 barleycorns or 60 carob divided by 20 = 3 carob. This is 0.568 grams." So we see that was a weight? A weight for what? It seems from the words in bold produce. That wasn't exactly money as we know it either... In fact the shekel is just a unit of weight. |
That's odd. Abraham thought it was money.
Gen.23
[15] 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.
[16] And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth,
four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
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