Thematic Bible: Presents given to parents to secure their favor
Thematic Bible
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 gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as you shall say unto me: but give me the damsel for my wife.
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has violated her, he may not put her away all his days.
And Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires not any dowry, but 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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