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Footnotes

1.

Karl S. Twitchell, Saudi Arabia, Princeton University Press, 1958, pp. 247–250.

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One talent equals 3000 shekels (see Exodus 38:25–26) and one common shekel equals .408 ounces. See R. B. Y. Scott, “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 22, pp. 22–40 (1959).

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Charles E. V. Craufurd, Treasure of Ophir (London 1929), pp. 265, 281–288.