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BECAH or Bekah, half a Shekel1. Every Israelite paid an hundred Bekahs a head every year for the support of the Exod.Temple. See Matth. xvii. 23. and hereafter under the title Didrachma.
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Translators’ note. Plin. l. xii. c. 9. ↩
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