Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
An homer
Bible References
I bought
Genesis 31:41
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto me, and give me the damsel to wife."
Exodus 22:17
If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then said Saul, "This wise say to David: 'The king careth for no other dowry but for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies." For Saul thought to make David fall into the hands of the Philistines.
An homer
Leviticus 27:16
If a man hallow a piece of his inherited land unto the LORD, it shall be set according to that it beareth. If it bear a homer of barley, it shall be set at fifty sicles of silver.
Isaiah 5:10
And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.
Ezekiel 45:11
The Ephah and the Bath shall be alike. One Bath shall contain the tenth part of a Homer, and so shall one Ephah do: their measure shall be after the Homer.