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Genesis 23:15

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

  • KJV King James Version

    My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    'My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.'

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Genesis 23:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 45:12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
  • Exodus 30:13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
  • Exodus 30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

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Explain this verse (10 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The common shekel is about 20 pence, so then…

The common shekel is about 20 pence, so then 400 shekels mount to 33 pound 6 shillings and 8 pence after 5 shilling sterling the ounce.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He speaks of the common shekel, which many value…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah,....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. The land is worth four hundred shekels…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the land is worth four hundred shekels, &c.--as if…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Four hundred shekels of silver — A nearer…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. worth four hundred shekels of silver] About £…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) The land is worth . . . —Our…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:15 400 pieces of silver was a very high…

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