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upon EZEKIEL. 427
This is made the Standard of the Shekel, Exrd. Chapter
xxx. 13. which confutes the common Opinion that XLY;
the Weights of the Sanctuary were double tothofe v^v"V)
of common Ufe. Biftiop Cumberland computes a
Gerah to be Equivalent to an Attic Obolus y conlifting
of almoft eleven Grains of Silver. The Shekelis
ufually Valued at 2 s 6do£ our Money : But
the fame Learned Author fuppofes it to be
in Value but it qd J-. of our Money, and a little
over. See his Treatife of Script, Weights and Mea-
jures, p. 104, ejc.
Ibid. Twenty Shekels, five and twenty Shekels, and
fifteen Shekels fhall be your Maneh] Maneh is the
fame with the Greek ^voT, and the Latin Mina, being
both deriv'd from it. A Maneh orM/wd, con-
fifts of fixty Shekels, i. e. thirty Ounces of Silver.
See Ibid. p. 1 122. which, Reckoning every Shekel
at 2 s 6d. Value, amounts to-jl 10 s. The Dividing
the Maneh into twenty, twenty-five, and
fifteen Shekels, fuppofes there were Coins of thefe
feveral Values, which taken all together are to be
of the fame Weight with the N[ina.
Ver. 13. This is the oblation ye jhall offer] TheVer. 13.
Hebrew word tranflited oblation is Trumn,b\ Which
is always diftinguihYd from the Biccuri?}/, or Firjtfruits,
and fignifethe Portion belonging to the Levites
out of the Fruits of the Earth when they were
gathered in : See Hiapt. xliv. 30. For which Reafon
St. Jerotn upon the Place fuppofes the following
Words to exprefs the Proportion the People
ought to pay the Levites out of the increafe of
their ground : Which by their Rabbies was determined
to amount to at Jeaft a iixtieth part, in
which Determination they probably followed the
Iii 2 Rule