How many times was thirty pieces of silver used in the bible?

Answer 1

Exodus 31:32 If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned Leviticus 27:4 And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels (the next verse tells us that these are shekels of silver) Zachariah 11:12 And I said unto them: 'If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear.' So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver In Jewish numerology 3 often symbolizes that which combines 2 objects, for example family. 10 symbolizes something realizing its completeness. In Leviticus the number 30 is chosen to symbolize that a woman in her prime aspires to complete perfection of family life. Exodus probably chooses the number 30 for a slave as him relevance to Judaism is similar to that of a woman (a non-Jewish slave must keep the same commandments as a Jewish woman. A Jewish man has additional commandments ie phylacteries and putting fringes on the corners of a 4 cornered garment Zachariah uses the number of 30 to show how God is being treated like a slave. Odds are, the New Testament chose 30 pieces of silver (what Judas is paid for betraying Jesus) to show that, like God in Zachariah, Jesus is seen as nothing more than a slave.