When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Garment. Hebrew, "a robe of Sannaar, or of Babylon. "This city was famous for embroidered, or painted robes, such as were worn by kings, Jonas iii. 6. (Pliny, viii. 48.) Rule, or linget. No coin was yet used. (Calmet)

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