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Genesis 23:14-16
World English Bible
Genesis 23:14-16
World English Bible
14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver[a] between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
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- 23:15 A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.
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