The kids ask me how much the 20 pieces of silver were worth
That Joseph’s brothers were paid for selling him. I can’t find that information on the Internet. Do you know or have any idea where to look?
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There is no consensus, and a lot of different guesses, on what the 20 pieces of silver would be worth today. The same, by the way, can be said for the 30 pieces of silver that Judas received four betraying Jesus, and other weights and measurements of the Bible. Here is what one website said about the the 20 pieces of silver that Joseph was sold for:
The denomination of the silver coins was called shekels. Coins containing that amount of silver (about the size of an American silver dollar) would be worth about $10 today. Thus the 20 pieces would be worth about $200 today, as bullion silver.
However, another website makes this honest confession:
A shekel of silver is the amount of silver which weighs a shekel. We don’t know exactly how much that was (and it may have been different at different times), but most scholars place it at around 10.5 grams– roughly the weight of two US quarters.
So, to briefly answer your question: Nobody really knows.
Pastor John