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 Silver is a shiny, gray precious metal used to make coins, jewelry, containers, and ornaments.
 
-* The containers would include silver cups and bowls, among other things used for cooking, eating, or serving.
+* The various containers that are made include silver cups and bowls, and other things used for cooking, eating, or serving.
 * Silver and gold were used in the building of the tabernacle and the temple.The temple in Jerusalem had containers made of silver.
-* In Bible times, silver coins and silver weights called shekels were used.
+* In Bible times, a shekel was a unit of weight, and a purchase was often priced at a certain number of shekels of silver. By New Testament times there were silver coins of various weights that were measured in shekels.
 * Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave for twenty shekels of silver.
 * Judas was paid thirty silver coins for betraying Jesus.