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19 Then he bought the piece of land on which he had pitched his tents from [a]the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred [b]pieces of money.

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  1. Genesis 33:19 Lit the hand of the sons.
  2. Genesis 33:19 Heb qesitah, an uncertain measure of weight; a rabbi once reported hearing the ma’ah, a small coin worth 1/12 of a shekel, called a qesitah.

19 For a hundred pieces of silver,[a] he bought from the sons of Hamor,(A) the father of Shechem,(B) the plot of ground(C) where he pitched his tent.(D)

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  1. Genesis 33:19 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.