Commentary for Bekhorot 99:12

עשרין מעין ותניא

An objection was raised: Does not the holy sela' contain forty-eight dupondia?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If a man sanctifies his field in the year of Jubilee, Scripture lays it down that he redeems it according to the standard of a homer of barley seed for fifty shekels of silver, and this is explained as meaning that he pays forty-nine sela's and forty-nine dupondia for the forty-nine years of the Jubilee. The question therefore arises, does not the holy sela' etc., since a holy sela' contains only forty-eight dupondia, and therefore it comes about that he redeems the field for fifty shekels plus a dupondium.');">¹⁰</span>

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