Thursday, July 25, 2013

Genesis 24 - The Sixth Commandment. Honoring God's gift of sex

In our series on the Ten Commandments we are at the sixth (thou shalt not commit adultery - or to put it in more modern day parlance: "sex is a big deal to God, He invented it and He can help you use it correctly so that you don't get burned and leave a trail of brokenness in your life.")

The passage we are using for the main message is from Genesis 24 where Abraham has his Property Manager take a 500 mile trip to find a wife for his son Isaac.

here is one clip from the text:

Genesis 24:19 After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink.” 20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels. 21 Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey successful.
22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka[c] and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.

So my question to you is, "What is a beka?  How much gold would that be and roughly what would it be worth?

Here's a hint:  at that time they weighed out silver and gold on scales with small round stones as the counterweight.

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