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Aegina Aeginetan Aeginetic Africa ancient Annam Asia Minor asses Assyrian Attic Babylonian Bahnars bars Brehon Laws bronze buffalo called cattle catty century B.C. Chinese coinage coined money copper currency Daric denarius didrachm dirhams doubt drachms earliest Egypt Egyptian electrum employed Euboic evidence fact Gauls gerah gold and silver gold shekel gold unit grains Troy grammes Greece Greek Hebrew Herodotus highest unit hoes Homeric Indian ingots Irish iron Italian Italy Kelts king later libra light shekel likewise litra Lydian maneh measure minae monetary native obol origin ornaments örtug ounce ox-unit Persian Pheidon Phoenician picul pieces pound precious metals primitive probably regarded region rings Roman screapalls sextans sheep shekel shell Sicilian Sicily silver coins silver standard simply slave stater Strabo struck tael talent tribes uncia unga unit of barter weight standards weight system weight unit wheat whilst worth δὲ καὶ τὸ
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Page 309 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Page 115 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 121 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Page 114 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Page 114 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right : or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 250 - And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
Page 121 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 115 - Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Page 267 - Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God...
Page 259 - Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. 23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.