Lesson 7.11
(Covering the sections titled: “Sailing and seagoing ships” and “
ACTIVITIES:
(A) Read Acts 27.
(B) How many people rode in the ship?
(C) When the ship crashed, how many of those people died?
Lesson 7.12 - Business Methods, Measures, Weights, Money
(Covering the sections titled: “The spread of Jewish commerce in the Dispersion,” “Local business--haggling over prices,” and “Disregard of time; ‘the unhurried East’,” pages 140, 146, and 147.)
Important words used in this lesson:
Trade means business, buying and selling. This lesson talks about trade between nations, and the travel that international traders must do.
Export means selling things to another country or nation.
Import means buying things from another country or nation.
ACTIVITIES:
(A) Read Genesis 37:25-28.
(B) The Ishmaelite traders came from what country?
(C) The Ishmaelite traders had what to sell?
(D) The traders were going to where?
(E) What did the traders buy from Judah and his brothers?
Lesson 7.13
(Covering the sections titled: “Lineal measurement,” “Liquid and dry measure,” and “Money,” pages 147 – 150.)
Measuring distances:
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Fingerbreadth = thickness of a finger (about ¾-inch).
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Handbreadth or palm = 4 fingerbreadths (about 3 inches).
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Span = distance between end of thumb and little finger (about 9 inches).
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Cubit = distance between elbow and tip of hand (about 18 inches).
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Pace or step = about 30 inches.
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Reed = about 10 feet.
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“A Sabbath’s Day Journey” = the maximum legal distance for travel on the Sabbath Day (about 2/3 mile), when no work was allowed. (see Acts 1:12)
Measuring Liquids:
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Log = about a pint (displacement of 6 hen’s eggs)
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Hin = 12 logs (about 6 quarts, 1½ gallon)
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Homer or Cor = 10 baths (about 90 gal)
Dry measurements:
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Cab = less than 2 quarts
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Seah = 6 cabs ( less than 10 quarts)
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Ephah = 3 seah (about one bushel)
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Homer = 10 ephahs (about 10 bushels, largest common measure)
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Roman Modius = about 1 peck (1/4 bushel)
Money (Old Testament):
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Shekel = silver coin, 0.4-oz, worth 1 day’s wage
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Bekah = half shekel
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Gerah =1/20 shekel
Money (New Testament):
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Lepton = smallest copper coin
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Denarius = about 1 day's wage
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Silver Stater = 4 denarii
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Talent = 6000 denarii.
ACTIVITIES:
(A) Read Genesis 23.
(B) What price did Abraham pay for the land for his family cemetary?
(C) Read Genesis 37:25-28.
(D) What price did the Ishmaelites pay for Joseph?
(E) Read John 2:1-11.
(F) How much water did Jesus change into wine?
(G) Read Proverbs 11:1 and Amos 8:4-6.
(H) What does God think about measurements in business?
Please read chapter 8 in Everyday Life in Bible Times.
