'Payment' in the Bible
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 you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
“I have aroused him in righteousnessAnd I will make all his ways smooth;He will build My city and will let My exiles go free,Without any payment or reward,” says the Lord of hosts.
The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.