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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 men will pass by, Midianites, merchants; and they will draw and bring up Joseph from the pit, and they will sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty of silver: and they will bring Joseph to Egypt
Hosea 3:2
And I shall buy her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and a measure of barley:
Zechariah 11:12
And saying to them, If good in your eyes, give ye my hire; and if not, desist. And they will weigh my hire, thirty of silver.