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Mk 12:42a ... And having come one poor widow cast in two leptas, ...

Verse 42 has two phrases and 11 narrator words. The 1st phrase has these 8 words, ... Kai elthousa mia xēra ptōxē ebalen lepta duo (And having come one widow poor cast in leptas two, ...).

The 8 narrator words are top down. Here comes the poor homeless widow from the previous story, the one whose house was "eaten down" by those evil scribes in verse 12:40a. We see her after she has cast in two copper leptas, one of the smallest value coins in circulation. In biblical days a copper lepta weighed about 1.5 grams (1/20th oz).

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