Commentary for Bekhorot 99:11
(שמות ל, יג) עשרים גרה השקל ומתרגמינן
renders 'twenty ma'ah', and it has been taught: Six ma'ah silver make one denar.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore three denars make eighteen ma'ah and a third of a denar makes two ma'ah, as each denar contains six ma'ah, a shekel thus amounting in all to twenty ma'ah.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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