Genesis 31:41
41These twenty years I have been in your house. aI served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and byou have changed my wages ten times.Genesis 34:12
12Ask me for as great a cbride-price ▼▼Or engagement present
and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.” Exodus 22:16-17
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16 e“If a man seduces a virgin ▼▼Or a girl of marriageable age; also verse 17
who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price ▼▼Or engagement present; also verse 17
for her and make her his wife. 17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, hhe shall pay money equal to the ibride-price for virgins. 2 Samuel 3:14
14Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, jfor whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”Hosea 3:2
2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a khomer and a lethech ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; a lethech was about 3 bushels or 110 liters
of barley. Hosea 12:12
12 mJacob fled to the land of Aram;there Israel nserved for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.
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