...Hebrew coin is of the date of the Maccabees. From the nineteenth century before Christ, when Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver,...current ' money with the merchant,' as the price of the cave of Machpelah*, until the middle of the second century B. c., when Antiochus Sidetes gave permission...

...coinage of money so low as the time of Croesus or Darius, it being there expressly said, that Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. Having considered the origin and high antiquity of coined money, we proceed to consider the stamp or...

...very remote period, as a representative of value, not merely in bullion, but as current money. Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant, for the field of Machpelah1. The shekels are here said to have been received by weight ; but it is...

...coinage of money so low as the time of .Croesus or Darius, it being there expressly said, that Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. Having considered the origin and high antiquity of coined money, we proceed to consider the stamp or...

...first coinage of money so low as the time of Croesus or Darius, it being expressly said that " Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." It is evident, from many passages in Homer, that Talentum originally signified a pair of scales ; and...

...and other ancient records we learn that money was first dealt out by weight. So Abraham weighed out to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." It is supposed that money was not coined among the Jews till the time of Judas Maccabeus, and we have...

...and other ancient records we learn that money was first dealt out by weight. So Abraham weighed out to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." It is supposed that money was not coined among the Jews till the time of Judas Maccabeus, and we have...

...sculptures, but of Scripture itself; for, in the first money transaction on record, we find that Abraham weighed to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." Another circumstance with regard to the gold rings in the possession of the Jelab, was, that he carried...

...sculptures, but of Scripture itself; for, in the first money transaction on record, we find that Abraham weighed to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant." Another circumstance with regard to the gold rings in the possession of the Jelab, was, that he carried...

...and Masson. fSttltCSt IttOttCJ) transaction on record is ! that in which it is related that Abraham weighed to Ephron " four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant," in payment for the field of Machpelah. These are supposed to have been mere lumps of silver, without...