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Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
Lovers » Instances of » Shechem for dinah
Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”
Marriage » A dowry given to the woman's parents before
Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”
Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife. When Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him,
Marriage » Presents given to parents to secure their favor
The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”
then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.