'Shekels' in the Bible
If the ox gores a male or a female servant, the owner shall give to the servant’s master thirty shekels of silver [the purchase price for a slave], and the ox shall be stoned.
“Take for yourself the best spices: five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much—two hundred and fifty—of sweet-scented cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty of fragrant cane,
and five hundred shekels of cinnamon blossom according to the sanctuary shekel, and a hin of olive oil.
All the gold that was used for the work, in all the building and furnishing of the sanctuary, the gold from the wave offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
The silver from those of the congregation who were assembled and counted was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the support poles and overlaid their tops and made connecting rings for them.
The bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.