 | 1866 - 768 pages
...money is traceable to the remotest antiquity. Thus Abraham, when purchasing the field of Machpelah, weighed to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchants" (Gen. xxiii. 1C). Joseph's brethren brought their " money in full weight " (Gen. xliii.... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1866 - 338 pages
...enough to cheat the receiver ; so they were always weighed out. Abraham weighed the silver which he paid to Ephron — ' four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.' The silver was cast into small forms, convenient for traffic, and perhaps stamped with a mark which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 552 pages
...money is traceable to the remotest antiquity. Thus Abraham, when purchasing the field of Machpelah, weighed to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchants " (Gen. xxiii. 16). Joseph's brethren brought their " money in full weight " (Gen. xliii.... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1869 - 494 pages
...and was exchanged by the same unit of weight as other ponderable substances. 1860 years before Christ "Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant," in exchange for the cave of Machpelah. The shekel was an ordinary Jewish weight equal to about half an... | |
 | George Washington Moon - English language - 1869 - 310 pages
...word currency. " Currency " is a term which is applicable to anything which passes current as money. " Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred " shekels of silver,, current money with the " merchant " : Gen. xxiii, 16. When, therefore, I stated that Mr. Gould speaks of a word under the similitude... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 920 pages
...first coinage of money so low as the time of CHESUS or Darius, it being there expressly said thai ' Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." With respect to the stamp or impression which the first money bore, the primitive race of men being... | |
 | William Garrett Lewis - Bible - 1874 - 304 pages
...transaction recorded in the Bible is the purchase of the grave in Machpelah,for which Abraham weighed out to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." 2 It is almost certain that the precious metal employed 1 So the LXX. and margin. = Gen. xxiii. 16.... | |
 | 1875 - 606 pages
...commerce, but their value was determined by weight. Thus, Abraham, when purchasing the cave of Machpelah, weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, " current money with the merchant " [Gen. xxiii. 16] ; and other instances will be found in Gen. xxxiii. 19; xliii. 21. The shekel was,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Exchange - 1875 - 394 pages
...Hebrews used to pass money by weight. In Genesis (xxiii. 16) Abraham is represented as weighing out to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant," but the silver in question is believed to have consisted of rough lumps or rings not to be considered... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Exchange - 1875 - 396 pages
...Hebrews used to pass money by weight. In Genesis (xxiii. 16) Abraham is represented as weighing out to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant," but the silver in question is believed to have consisted of rough lumps or rings not to be considered... | |
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In Genesis (xxiii. 16) Abraham is represented as weighing out to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant... 
