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The currency in the East being mainly in silver, large sums ready counted, and sealed with a known seal in a bag; passed current (compare ; ; ; , "my transgression is sealed up in a bag"; ; , sealed securely for punishment). Charitim, cone-shaped bags (); translated for "crisping pins," , "reticules." Kis, bags for carrying weights () or money (). Keliy, the "shepherd's bag," for carrying materials for healing or binding up lame sheep (; ). Glossokomon, used for the mouthpieces of musical instruments (; ). Judas carried in it the common property of the Twelve.