Thematic Bible: Presents given to parents to secure their favor
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Marriage » Presents given to parents to secure their favor
Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.
So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;
However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.
And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.
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