SIL Translator’s Notes on 1 Kings 10:29

10:29a A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver,

They could buy/import a chariot from Egypt for six hundred silver shekels,
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The price of a chariot from Egypt was six hundred pieces of silver,
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Each Egyptian war cart cost about fifteen pounds of silver,

10:29b and a horse for a hundred and fifty.

and ⌊they could buy/import⌋ a horse for one hundred and fifty silver shekels.
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and ⌊the price of⌋ a horse was one hundred and fifty shekels.
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and each horse ⌊cost⌋ about four pounds of silver.

10:29c Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

They also sold these things to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.
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The king’s traders also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittite peoples and the Aramean peoples.

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