rings of silver (known as šʿat) were used for exchange.524 The richest mining zone for silver in the ancient world was in Anatolia.525 Altar (33:20). See comment on 12:8. Jacob’s Family and the Shechemites (34:1–31) Took her and violated her (34:2). In societies in which marriages were arranged with economic and sociological goals in mind, the couple did not always have an opportunity to pursue their love interests. One way around the problem of parents unwilling to indulge their children’s desires