Genesis 24:22

24:22 After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka ¹  and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels ²  and gave them to her. ³ 

Genesis 24:30

24:30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring ⁴  and heard his sister Rebekah say, ⁵  “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing ⁶  by the camels near the spring.

Genesis 24:47

24:47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ ⁷  I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

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¹ sn A beka weighed about 5-6 grams (0.2 ounce).

² sn A shekel weighed about 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce) although weights varied locally, so these bracelets weighed about 4 ounces (115 grams).

³ tn The words “and gave them to her” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

⁴ tn Heb “And it was when he saw the nose ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister.” The word order is altered in the translation for the sake of clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “and look, he was standing.” The disjunctive clause with the participle following the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) invites the audience to view the scene through Laban’s eyes.

⁷ tn Heb “whom Milcah bore to him.” The referent (Nahor) has been specified in the translation for clarity.