Genesis 23:15

23:15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth ¹  400 pieces of silver, ²  but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

Genesis 37:33

37:33 He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! ³  Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 45:22

45:22 He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, ⁴  but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes. ⁵ 

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¹ tn The word “worth” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² sn Four hundred pieces of silver. The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of silver here 4.6 kilograms, or 160 ounces (about 10 pounds).

³ sn A wild animal has eaten him. Jacob draws this conclusion on his own without his sons actually having to lie with their words (see v. 20). Dipping the tunic in the goat’s blood was the only deception needed.

⁴ tn Heb “to all of them he gave, to each one, changes of outer garments.”

⁵ tn Heb “changes of outer garments.”