12 (A)Are you greater than our father Jacob? (B)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

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12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well(A) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

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19 And from the sons of (A)Hamor, Shechem's father, (B)he bought for a hundred pieces of money[a] the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

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  1. Genesis 33:19 Hebrew a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

19 For a hundred pieces of silver,[a] he bought from the sons of Hamor,(A) the father of Shechem,(B) the plot of ground(C) where he pitched his tent.(D)

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  1. Genesis 33:19 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

22 Moreover, I have given to (A)you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope[a] that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

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  1. Genesis 48:22 Or one portion of the land; Hebrew shekem, which sounds like the town and district called Shechem

22 And to you I give one more ridge of land[a](A) than to your brothers,(B) the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword(C) and my bow.”

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  1. Genesis 48:22 The Hebrew for ridge of land is identical with the place name Shechem.

32 (A)As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land (B)that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

32 And Joseph’s bones,(A) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(B) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land(C) that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[a] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.