1 Cahn made a few shekels on the deal.

2 Some 79 million shekels, or $ 25. 3 million, of shares traded.

3 Mighty princes can afford to pay four hundred shekels for a cave and a field.

4 So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

5 Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels.

6 You look well, Tom. Still gathering in the shekels , eh?

7 They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech used it to hire reckless adventurers, who became his followers.

8 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

9 So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.

10 They also gave him seventy silver shekels from the temple of Baal of Berith, with which Abimelech hired shiftless men and ruffians as his followers.

11 Ephron has told him the land is worth four hundred shekels.

12 The silver has to be weighed out, all four hundred shekels of it, and indeed it is.

13 In biblical times, according to the book of Leviticus, women at work were valued at thirty silver shekels.

14 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

15 When they are a month old, you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel,[] which weighs twenty gerahs.

16 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.

17 So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

18 Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

19 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

20 Power costs around half a shekel, or 15 cents, a kilowatt-hour and feed-in tariffs have recently dipped below 2 shekels.

21 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.

22 Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

23 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighting ten shekels.

24 If the dollar keeps dropping, stocks and bonds priced in euros, yen, rubles or shekels will tend to become more valuable; anything denominated in foreign currency will then buy more dollars.

25 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.

26 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents , and two thousand and four hundred shekels.