Book of Mormon weights and measures
Metals in the Book of Mormon (particularly in Alma chapter 11) are used to describe a weight measurement system as follows:
Gold
- Senine = 0.5 seon [sean] = barley measure = any grain measure = judge's wages for a day[1]
- Antion = 3 shiblon[2] = 1.5 senine
- Seon [sean][3] = 2 senine = 0.5 shum[4]
- Shum = 2 seon [sean][5]
- Limnah = 'the value of them all'[6]
Silver
- Senum = senine = barley measure = any grain measure[7]
- Amnor = 2 senums[8]
- Ezrom [ezrum][9] = 4 senums[10]
- Onti [anti][11] = 'as great as them all'[12]
- Zeezrom offered six onties to Amulek if the latter would reject his belief in God.[13]
Unknown, but possibly Silver
- Shiblon = 0.5 senum = 0.5 barley measure = 2 shiblum [shilum] = ⅓ antion[14]
- Shiblum [shilum][15] = 2 leah = 0.5 shiblon[16]
- Leah = 0.5 shiblum [shilum] = 0.25 shiblon = 0.125 senum/senine
See also
References
- ^ Alma 11:3, 7-8
- ^ Alma 11:19
- ^ At Alma 11:5,8-9, the Printer's MS has sean, corrected in MS to seon in vs 9, and set thus in all three verses by the 1830 edition compositor, per Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (Provo: FARMS, 2004-2009), 3:1806, 6:3579
- ^ Alma 11:8-9
- ^ Alma 11:9
- ^ Alma 11:10
- ^ Alma 11:7
- ^ Alma 11:11
- ^ At Alma 11:6,12, the Printer's MS has ezrum, erroneously set as ezrom by the 1830 edition compositor, per Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (Provo: FARMS, 2004-2009), 3:1806-7, 6:3637
- ^ Alma 11:12
- ^ At Alma 11:6,13,22,25, the Printer's MS has anti thrice, but the first as onhi, all four corrected in MS to onti which was followed by the 1830 edition compositor, per Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (Provo: FARMS, 2004-2009), 3:1807-8, 4:2094, 6:3579
- ^ Alma 11:13
- ^ Alma 11:22
- ^ Alma 11:15,16,19
- ^ At Alma 11:16-17, the Original and Printer's MSS have shilum, erroneously set as shiblum by the 1830 edition compositor, per Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (Provo: FARMS, 2004-2009), 3:1810-11
- ^ Alma 11:16-17
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