xiii, 9.

"I bought the field ...
and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

And I ...
weighed him the money in the balances." Jer.

xxxii, 9, 10.

A shekel was 224 grains, troy weight, which is about equal to six-tenths of the pure metal in a silver dollar to-day and worth now about twenty-four cents in gold.