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Originally Posted by good samaritan
You are being rude. I enjoy dialogue with you. We have come this far without being offensive, so let’s not start now.
I apologize. I’ll try to be more subtle.
There is a lot of time between Leviticus and second Kings. Hundreds of years. I am sure that coinage is coming into the picture by the time of this passage. I was referring to earlier times in Israel’s history. Shortly from the time of this passage Israel is going to be no more.
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There are at least three units of money mentioned in Leviticus. I’ll try to find the scripture to support this later.
You are right that money was modeled after weights. A shekel was a weight. A half shekel was a bekah. A whole shekel was twenty gerahs. A gerah was, I believe, the least coin of the Leviticus time. It would be somewhat similar to our penny.
However, there was a difference obviously in a shekel weight of gold and a shekel weight of silver etc..
Many of the monetary units of today were based on weight originally. I believe the Mexican peso and the British pound are examples of this.
And sincere congratulations on the baby y’all are expecting. You have a nice size family. You are being fruitful. God is blessing.
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