Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 23:16

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 23:16 - 23:16

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 23:16 - 23:16

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23:1 - 23:1
23:2 - 23:2
23:3 - 23:3
23:9 - 23:9
23:10 - 23:10
23:11 - 23:11
23:15 - 23:15
23:16 - 23:16
23:19 - 23:19

Abraham weighed ... the silver - The money, amounting to about $1,000, was paid in presence of the assembled witnesses; and it was weighed. The practice of weighing money, which is often in lumps or rings, each stamped with their weight, is still common in many parts of the East; and every merchant at the gates or the bazaar has his scales at his girdle.