¹ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

¹ tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “poured out,” probably referring to the way the silver pieces poured out of their container.

¹ tn Heb “Look, [it was] hidden in his tent, and the silver was beneath it.”

² tn Heb “and water for silver give to us so that I may drink.”

² tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in 50 shekels of silver.”

¹ tn Heb “and a priest, if he buys a person, the property of his silver.”

² sn The two silver coins were denarii. A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s pay for a laborer; this would be an amount worth about two days’ pay.

⁵ tc Heb “with pieces [?] of silver.” The meaning of the Hebrew term רַצֵּי (ratse) is unclear. It is probably best to emend the text to בֶּצֶר וְכָסֶף (betser v^ekhasef, “[with] gold and silver”).

² tn Heb “the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood.”

¹ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:24 says David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for “fifty pieces of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.

¹ tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, 50 shekels of silver for each man.”

¹ tn The words “into silver shekels” are supplied here. See the full expression in Lev 5:15, and compare 5:18. Cf. NRSV “or its equivalent”; NLT “or the animal’s equivalent value in silver.”

¹ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

¹ tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

⁵ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

⁵ tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”

¹ sn The word used is “silver.” Coins were not in existence until after 700 b.c. (starting with Lydia).

² sn The half shekel weight of silver would be about one-fifth of an ounce (6 grams).

¹ tn Heb “silver.” The Hebrew term כֶּסֶף (kesef, “silver”) refers to “money” (HALOT 490-91 s.v. כֶּסֶף 3). It is a synecdoche of specific (i.e., silver) for the general (i.e., money); see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 625-29.