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  1. And Abraham hearkeneth unto Ephron, and Abraham weigheth to Ephron the silver which he hath spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.

  2. And it cometh to pass when the camels have finished drinking, that the man taketh a golden ring (whose weight is a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight is ten bekahs of gold),

  3. and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money is in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;

  4. `This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel is the heave-offering to Jehovah;

  5. and cassia five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, and olive oil a hin;

  6. of a talent of pure gold he hath made it, and all its vessels.

  7. `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

  8. righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

  9. `In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.

  10. `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

  11. Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.

  12. Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

  13. and he taketh the crown of their king from off his head, and its weight is a talent of gold, and precious stones, and it is on the head of David; and the spoil of the city he hath brought out, very much;

  14. and in his polling his head--and it hath been at the end of year by year that he polleth it , for it is heavy on him, and he hath polled it--he hath even weighed out the hair of his head--two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

  15. even gold by weight, for things of gold, for all instruments of service and service; for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of service and service;

  16. And from the extremity of the heads of the fathers they have given to the work; the Tirshatha hath given to the treasure, of gold, drams a thousand, bowls fifty, priests' coats thirty and five hundred.

  17. And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred.

  18. To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

  19. He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

  20. Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

  21. A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.

  22. A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

  23. An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.

  24. Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?

  25. And I buy the field, that is in Anathoth, from Hanameel, my uncle's son, and I weigh to him the money--seventeen shekels of silver.