The shekelA shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. shall be twenty gerahs.a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.
Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits,A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 7:20
The waters rose fifteen cubitsA cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. higher, and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
Genesis 18:10
He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.