Zechariah 11:11-13

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¹¹So the covenant was broken on that day, and thus the most wretched of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. ¹²I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, do not.” So they weighed out ^[a]thirty pieces of silver as my wages. ¹³^[b]Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter [as if to the dogs]—that magnificent sum at which I am valued by them!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord.^(A)

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Footnotes

Zechariah 11:12 Since the type of coin is not stated, shekels can be assumed. The shekel was the standard wage for a day of labor, and the payment was weighed because the shekel was actually a unit of weight.
Zechariah 11:13 At this point the pre-incarnate Christ intervenes and prophetically refers to the payment given by the religious leaders to Judas for his betrayal (Matt 26:15).