Genesis 34:12
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as all of you shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
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Genesis 24:53And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.
Exodus 22:16And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely secure her to be his wife.
1 Samuel 18:25And Saul said, Thus shall all of you say to David, The king desires not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Hosea 3:2So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:7-18
Treachery of Dinah's Brethren. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your… Read the whole commentary →