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FOR a general Good, and the Increase of Knowledge and understanding in reading the Bible, have been at some Pains and Trouble in examining several Dictionaries, to find out the true  of the Coins and Measures and what  are. Of these there are three Sorts, the, the King's and those of the Sanctuary. So are three Sorts of Talents, the common, the, and those of the Sanctuary; all which I  cast up, both in Gold, Silver and Weight;  how much the Value of each is, according  current English Money, from One to Three  and Fifty Thousand Talents and plain. Also of the Pieces of Silver, Silverings, Pence: and in what Chapter or Chapters,  or Verses, any of them are to be found. the Measures, how much any of them in English. In this Edition I have added the, Weights, and Measures, mentioned in Apocrypha. This Word signifies a Thing to of no Authority, hidden, or doubtful. The (before the Apocryphy) is called, that is approved by common Consent, or  Rule. This Division was made about four Years after Christ, there being assembled  hundred Bishops of Carthage in Africa, who