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It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What do you want?"
Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Lovers » Instances of » Shechem for dinah
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Marriage » A dowry given to the woman's parents before
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.
Marriage » Presents given to parents to secure their favor
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 her mother.
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady'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.
Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.