Gerah
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Gerah
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A gerah is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, which, according to the Torah, was equivalent to 1⁄20 of a standard "sacred" shekel. A gerah is known in Aramaic, and usually in Rabbinic literature, as a ma'ah. It was originally a fifth of a denarius or zuz, as seen in the Torah and in Ezekiel (45:12), then became a sixth of a dinar/zuz, such as the coinage of Persian-era Yehud, which came in two denominations: approximately 0.58 gram for the ma'ah and approximately .29 gram for the hal
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Ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerah
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2023-03-03T21:48:09Z
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