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And it happened as she came, she moved him to ask a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you desire?
And Leah said, God has given me a good present. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
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Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife.
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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
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Lovers » Instances of » Shechem for dinah
Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife.
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And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke to the heart of the girl.
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Marriage » A dowry given to the woman's parents before
Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife.
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And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
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And David arose and went forth, he and his men. And they killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.
Marriage » Presents given to parents to secure their favor
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
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So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.
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Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife.
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
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And Saul said, You shall say this to David, The king does not desire any dowry except a 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.
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