2 Chronicles 3:9World English Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekelsA shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces. of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
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The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
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