8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. 1 This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, 2 purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. 3
1 snSeventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.
2 tn Or “pendants.”
3 tnHeb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”