| John Callaway - 1827 - 110 pages
...refreshment.—While writing, the recollection strongly reminds me of Jer. xiv. 3. Genesis, xxiii. 16. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron ; and Abraham...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... | |
| 1827 - 1446 pages
...hearken unto me : the land is icorth four hundred shekels of silver ; what it that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened...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,... | |
| Thomas Hodgskin - 1827 - 318 pages
...some other countries, and still adopted in all countries with foreign coin. " Abraham," we are told, " weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in...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... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...and all that generation. a GEN. xxiii. 16: Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed unto Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience...shekels of silver, current money with the merchant, do. xxxiii. 19: [Jacob] bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the' hand of the... | |
| 1829 - 1012 pages
...hearken unto me : the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee ? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened...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 - 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... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...thee hear me : I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron: and Abraham...shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 19 And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre:... | |
| American Sunday-School Union - 1830 - 194 pages
...worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and, thee ? bury therefore thy dead. lb And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed...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... | |
| 1830 - 864 pages
...1 ! :1 i -л i M 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... | |
| 1831 - 930 pages
...what is that betwixt me and thee 1 bury .herefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Eph•on, , Munroe and Francis, and R.P. and C. Williams 17 And the field of Ephron, which teas n Machpelah, which was before Mamre, he field and the cave which... | |
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