Reference: Pieces of Gold
Fausets
2Ki 5:5, probably shekels (weight); compare 1Ki 10:16. PIECE OF SILVER: probably shekels (weight); Ge 20:16; 37:28; 45:22. In Lu 15:8-9, the Greek drachma, Roman denarius, penny. (See DRACHMA; PENNY.) The 30 pieces paid to Judas were "shekels," the price of a slave's life (Ex 21:32), Ex 21:3 British pounds or 4 British pounds: Zec 11:12-13.
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He said to Sarah: Do not forget that I have given your brother twenty-five pounds of silver. This is to silence any criticism against you from everyone with you. You are completely cleared.
Some of the Midianite traders approached. The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites. They took him to Egypt.
Joseph gave some new clothes to each of his brothers. He gave Benjamin five new outfits and three hundred pieces of silver.
If he was single at the time you bought him he alone must be set free. If he was married at that time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom.
If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold. About fifteen pounds of gold went into each shield.
The king said: Go to the king of Israel and take this letter to him. Naaman departed. He took thirty thousand pieces of silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of fine clothes.
I said to them, If it is good in your sight give me my wages, if not forget it. So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, the amount they paid me. I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Jehovah.
Suppose a woman with ten silver coins loses one of them. What does she do? She lights a lamp and sweeps her house. She looks carefully everywhere until she finds it. When she finds it she calls her friends and says let us celebrate. I am happy I found the lost coin.