舍客勒

According to Fry, we should treat the shekel according to three different time periods: (1) through the time of David, it was like the New Testament denarius, which equaled a day’s wage; (2) from the time of Solomon to the captivity, the shekel was 1/10 of the old value; (3) from the captivity onward there was again a devaluation, so a month’s wages was 20 shekels (equaling 1 daric). In the Old Testament where the word “shekel” refers to money, the passages can be divided as follows according to the meaning of “shekel”:

1. One day’s wage equals one shekel: 創世記 23:15 創世記 23:16 出埃及記 21:32 民數記 31:52 約書亞記 7:21 約書亞記 7:21 撒母耳記上 9:8 撒母耳記上 17:5 撒母耳記上 17:7 撒母耳記下 14:26 撒母耳記下 24:24 歷代志上 21:25

2. One day’s wage equals 10 shekels: 列王紀下 7:1 列王紀下 7:1 列王紀下 7:16 列王紀下 7:16 列王紀下 7:18 列王紀下 7:18 列王紀下 15:20 歷代志下 3:9 阿摩司書 8:5

3. One month’s wage equals 20 shekels: 耶利米書 32:9 以西結書 4:10 以西結書 45:12 以西結書 45:12 以西結書 45:12 以西結書 45:12

The word “shekel” refers to regular weight in 創世記 23:15 創世記 23:16 出埃及記 21:32 and in more than twenty other passages.

The word “shekel” refers to double weight (sheqel haqodesh; literally “the holy shekel,” which is rendered “shekel of the sanctuary” by RSV) in the following Old Testament passages: 出埃及記 30:13 出埃及記 30:13 出埃及記 30:13 出埃及記 30:13 出埃及記 30:15 出埃及記 30:24 出埃及記 38:24 出埃及記 38:24 出埃及記 38:25 出埃及記 38:25 出埃及記 38:26 出埃及記 38:26 出埃及記 38:29 利未記 5:15 利未記 5:15 利未記 27:3 利未記 27:3 利未記 27:4 利未記 27:5 利未記 27:5 利未記 27:6 利未記 27:6 利未記 27:7 利未記 27:7 利未記 27:16 利未記 27:25 利未記 27:25 民數記 3:47 民數記 3:47 民數記 3:50 民數記 7:13 民數記 7:13 民數記 7:19 民數記 7:19 民數記 7:25 民數記 7:25 民數記 7:31 民數記 7:31 民數記 7:37 民數記 7:37 民數記 7:43 民數記 7:43 民數記 7:49 民數記 7:49 民數記 7:55 民數記 7:55 民數記 7:61 民數記 7:61 民數記 7:67 民數記 7:67 民數記 7:73 民數記 7:73 民數記 7:79 民數記 7:79 民數記 7:85 民數記 7:86 民數記 18:16 民數記 18:16. There seems to have been a separate standard of weight used in the service of the Tabernacle. While its exact or even relative value is not given in Scripture, many scholars believe that it was double the weight of the shekel used in ordinary commerce. GNT renders the literal expression “the shekel of the sanctuary” as “according to the official standard.” But it is probably better to add to this “… of the sanctuary” for the sake of clarity. Also, the religious component may have been significant in that some degree of consistency would have been used in such measures. Other ways of expressing the idea of a special weight/value used for religious purposes in a passage like 出埃及記 30:13 are “according to the official standards” (CEV), “using the standard weight of the holy place” (GW), and “according to the unit of weight which is in force in the sanctuary” (ITCL).

For the Aramaic word teqel in 但以理書 5:25 但以理書 5:27, see the discussion under peres above, Peres, Parsin.