Thematic Bible: Wives obtained


Thematic Bible



So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley. Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals


And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep]. Verse ConceptsSheepWagesIsrael FleeingOther Wivessyria

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his plac Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningOffspringPurchasingTownWidowsNamed Wives

and watch. And, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch for you every man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we took not for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them to them, e And the sons of Benjamin did so, and took for them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. And they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.