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, p. 115, f., and Figs. 108, 109.

[175] For discussions of the subject, see Bliss and Macalister, _Excavations in Palestine, 1898-1900_, 106-123; Macalister in the _Quarterly Statement_ of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1905, 243 and 328; also _Excavation of Gezer_, II, 209, ff., and Vincent, _Canaan d’après l’exploration récente_, pp. 357-360.

[176] See Sellin, _Jericho_, p. 156.

[177] For a fuller discussion of children’s toys, see Rice, _Orientalisms in Bible Lands_, pp. 49-58.

[178] An early Christian writer, born in 315, died in 403 A. D., who was bishop of Salamis in Cyprus.

[179] From this equivalence the reader can easily compute the value which the intermediate measures would have according to this theory. The multiples of the Log which formed the Cab, etc., are given above.

[180] See Père Germer-Durand, “Mesures de capacité des Hebreux au temps de l’évangile” in _Conferences de Saint-Étienne_, Paris, 1910, pp. 89-105, and Fig. 185.

[181] The Jewish name for an offering to God. (See Mark 7:11.)

[182] “Mana” is both the Babylonian and the Hebrew term. In English it has usually been corrupted to “Mina.”

[183] Some scholars understand MENE to be such a reference.

[184] The weight is now in the library of Haverford College, near Philadelphia.

[185] The words rendered “the price was a _pim_” are translated in the Authorized Version, “they had a file,” margin, “a file with mouths”; in the Revised Version, “they had a file,” margin, or “when the edges ... were blunt.” The Revisers add, “The Hebrew text is obscure.” The Hebrew word rendered “file” and “blunt” comes from a root that means “to prescribe” or “appoint.” It could easily mean the “established price,” but can mean neither “file” nor “blunt.” _Pim_ means “mouths” and is employed figuratively for “edges,” but neither of those meanings fits the passage. The discovery of these weights has cleared up the whole obscurity. This interpretation was suggested by Pilcher in the _Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement_, 1914, p. 99.

[186] See Macalister, _Excavation of Gezer_, II, 279.

[187] See Macalister, _ibid._, pp. 278-293.

[188] See Bliss and Macalister, _Excavations in Palestine_, 1898-1900, p. 61.

[189] See Macalister, _Excavation of Gezer_, II, 291.

[190] See Breasted, _Ancient Records, Egypt_, II, §§ 436, 489, 490, 518, and _History of Egypt_, 2d ed., pp. 277, 307.

[191] See Schrader’s _Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek_, I, 105 (cl. III, 62).

[192] See C. H. W. Johns, _Assyrian Deeds and Documents_, I, Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 50, and 108; cf. also III, 8.

[193] See Hill, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Palestine_, London, 1914, p. xciii, ff.

[194] Cf. Luke 21:2.

[195] The temples of Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod are treated in