Jeremiah 32:9
So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
Note 17 shekels is approximately 6.8 ounces or 193.8 grams of silver.
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Note seventeen…: or, seven shekels and ten pieces of silver
I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Note A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- weighed
- Genesis 23:15, 16; 1 Kings 20:39; Esther 3:9; Isaiah 55:2
- seventeen shekels of silver
- or, seven shekels, and tenpieces of silver.
- Genesis 37:28; Hosea 3:2; Zechariah 11:12, 13