Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThen I said to them, "If you think it right, pay my wages; if not, keep them." And they counted out my wages — thirty pieces of silver.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThen I said to them, "If it seems good in your eyes, give me my wages; and if not, withhold them." So they weighed out my wages: thirty pieces of silver.
KJV
King James VersionAnd I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThen I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
Footnotes
וַיִּשְׁקְלוּ (vayishkelu) — "they weighed" — the verb shakal is the etymological root of shekel; silver was still weighed by mass in this era, not counted as standardised coins. Thirty shekels was the legal indemnity for a slave killed by a gored ox (Exod 21:32) — the absolute legal floor of a human life's worth in the ancient world — and the crushing irony is that this is the price placed on YHWH's own shepherd-service. F.O.G retains "weighed" to honour the economic idiom; F.O.G Message uses "counted out" to make the scornful transaction vivid. Matthew 27:9–10 identifies the thirty silver coins paid to betray Jesus/Yeshua as the fulfilment of this very passage.