Thematic Bible: Presents given to parents to secure their favor
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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.
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