him. I said to him, ‘My father, [96] I wish to inform you—so you know—that there are three hundred pounds of silver there.’ “But he did not lift his head from his work but said to me in a firm voice: ‘He to whom you have given them knows their number; he doesn’t need anyone to weigh them for him. He who “weighs the mountains in a scale and the hills in a balance” is not ignorant of the weight of this silver [Is 40:12].40 Indeed, if you had given the money to me, then you’d do well to inform me about