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Matthew · Chapter 26 · 15. And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

[Thirty pieces of silver.] The price of a slave, Exodus 21:32. Maimon. "The price of a slave, whether great or little, he or she, is thirty selaim of pure silver: if the slave be worth a hundred pounds, or worth only one penny." Now a selaa, in his weight, weighed three hundred and eighty-four barleycorns.