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Default Re: 50 shekels of silver in today's value? - 11-13-2013, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan View Post
A shekel is a unit of weight equal to about 11 grams, so 50 shekels is about 550 grams or 19.4 ounces.

The spot price of silver has been dropping for the last year or so, but as of yesterday it was around $21.70 per ounce. That would place 50 shekels as being worth about $420.98
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Originally Posted by Jedediah View Post
I will pray for Jesus to enter your heart and, while He keeps you free from sin, teach you the finer points of theomathematics, Ex-Viking.

1 shekel = 0.4 oz.
1 oz. silver = $20.70 (as of 11/12/2013)

50 silver shekels = 20 oz. silver = $414.
Scrounging together the meager resources of the entire internet I was able to confirm and reaffirm that a "shekel" had never been anything but a unit of weight in all places the term was used, until 1980. A clump of common silver the size of your hand will more than cover the rape fee. God did not say that we must find the most expensive silver possible. He did not specify what form the fifty shekels of silver must be in.

After all, it would be far too punitive to charge a man of modest means 50 million dollars for what could amount to a case of mistaken identity. What if the woman was adopted? She might have Shilohan features and even still be speaking their gobbledy-gook.

We should not spread misconceptions, lest rapists become entitled to vast reparations from their in-laws. This could sow discord among the brethren.

If God had told us to compensate the father by giving him a slave, would it then a requirement to go find him Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?


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