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     * 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.
     # Ex 30:15; Eze 45:12|