 | John Callaway - 1827 - 110 pages
...reminds me of Jer. xiv. 3. Genesis, xxiii. 16. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron ; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience...shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. Abraham's nse of the scales is no proof that money was not stamped. In Syria, Egjpl, and Turkey, money... | |
 | Thomas Hodgskin - Economics - 1827 - 318 pages
...countries, and still adopted in all countries with foreign coin. " Abraham," we are told, " weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience...shekels of silver, current money with the merchant."* " The revenues of the ancient Saxon Kings of England are said to have been paid, not in money but in... | |
 | 1827 - 1446 pages
...me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of H eth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 17 11 And the field of Kphron,... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...me and thee ? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience...shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 1 7 IT And the field of Ephron .which mas in Machpelah, which mas before Mamre, the Geld and tin: cave... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1829 - 394 pages
...operation of weighing was performed with a steelyard. The passage reads thus : " and Abraham weighed unto Ephron the silver which he. had named in the audience of the sons of Jicih." The remains of Hindoo and Egyptian architecture, which strike even the era-proud mechanist... | |
 | 1830 - 864 pages
...me aud tht-e ? bury therefore thy dead. 1C And Abrnhnm hearkened unto Ephron; ond Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the ions of Hclh, fo-ir hundred shekels of silve:*, current mmtftf with ihe merchant. 17 And the huid of... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - Bible - 1830 - 194 pages
...me and, thee ? bury therefore thy dead. lb And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the cons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 17 And the field of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1832 - 598 pages
...barter was weighed out by the scales ; as when Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah, he ' weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth ; ' moreover, there was anciently no money in Arahia, or the riches of the Patriarch Job would not... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...hundred shekels of silver. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the «lver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth. Ge. xxiii. 16, 16. 24 lam the daughter of Bethuel, &c.] See wr. 15. and chap. xi. 29. with com. and... | |
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed unto Ephron the silver which he had named in the presence of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." This is the first instance of a purchase being made vith money ; for it is evident from the passage,... | |
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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. 
