Weights: Value of Money Estimated According To

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.