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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.
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.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

23:15 shekels of silver. At this time, the shekel was not a coin as such, but rather a specified weight, probably about two-fifths of an ounce.


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