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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 45:12 - Strong Concordance

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Eze 45:12 Strong Concordance And the shekel [08255] shall be twenty [06242] gerahs [01626]: twenty [06242] shekels [08255], five [02568] and twenty [06242] shekels [08255], fifteen [02568] [06235] shekels [08255], shall be your maneh [04488].
  King James And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The standard weights were lost when the Chaldeans destroyed the temple. The threefold enumeration of shekels (twenty, twenty-five, fifteen) probably refers to coins of different value, representing respectively so many shekels, the three collectively making up a maneh. By weighing these together against the maneh, a test was afforded whether they severally had their proper weight: sixty shekels in all, containing one coin a fourth of the whole (fifteen shekels), another a third (twenty shekels), another a third and a twelfth (twenty-five shekels) [MENOCHIUS]. The Septuagint reads, "fifty shekels shall be your maneh."
 
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