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Summary

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.

Seventeen shekels of silver

Bible References

Seventeen shekels of silver

Genesis 37:28
And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Zechariah 11:12
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.

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