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  2. Gemstones in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Despite the qualities mentioned in the Bible, the stone referred to may be the limpid corindon, which exhibits the same qualities, and is used in India for the same purposes as the diamond. Diamond Color [ 6 ] grade ranges from D - Z, where D is the whitest (or colorless) and Z is light yellow or brown.

  3. Prasiolite - Wikipedia

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    Prasiolite (also known as green quartz, green amethyst or vermarine) is a green variety of quartz. Since 1950, almost all natural prasiolite has come from a small Brazilian mine, [ citation needed ] but it has also been mined in the Lower Silesia region of Poland .

  4. Lesson of the widow's mite - Wikipedia

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    A bronze mite, also known as a Lepton (meaning small), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103–76 BC and still in circulation at the time of Jesus [1]. The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44 and Luke 21:1–4), when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem.

  5. Poor man's tithe - Wikipedia

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    The poor man's tithe (Hebrew: מַעְשַׂר עָנִי ‎ ma'sar ani), also referred to as the pauper's tithe or the third tithe, is a triennial tithe of one's produce, required in Jewish law.

  6. Mina (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Writings from Ugarit give the value of a mina as equivalent to fifty shekels. [10] The prophet Ezekiel refers to a mina (maneh in the King James Version) also as 60 shekels, in the Book of Ezekiel 45:12. Jesus of Nazareth tells the "parable of the minas" in Luke 19:11–27, also told as the "parable of the talents" in Matthew 25:14–30.

  7. Chrysoprase - Wikipedia

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    Chrysoprase, chrysophrase or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains small quantities of nickel.Its color is normally apple-green, but varies from turquoise-like cyan to deep green.

  8. Ancient amulet showing biblical king spearing devil is unearthed

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    The amulet was found during an ongoing excavation project in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city near Karabük, Turkey.

  9. Temple tax - Wikipedia

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    A Tyrian shekel contained 13.1g of pure silver; at a spot valuation of US$28/ozt in 2021, worth about $12. After the return under Nehemiah, Jews in the Diaspora continued to pay the Temple tax. Josephus reported that at the end of the 30s CE "many tens of thousands" of Babylonian Jews guarded the convoy taking the tax to Jerusalem (Ant. 18.313).