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The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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God Cares About Honesty
Commentators explain that this verse establishes a standard for weights and currency (the shekel and the maneh). The primary goal was to ensure fairness and prevent the 'adulteration of coin,' thereby promoting justice and integrity in the everyday economic life of God's people.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The shekel - See the marginal reference.
The "maneh" shall be of true weight, but it would seem that in Ezekiel’s time there were "ma…
19th Century
Anglican
The shekel. The first part of this verse is merely a restatement of the old law (Exodus 30:13; [Reference Leviticus 27…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs This is a rule for money or coin; the shekel was a silver coin, and is general…
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