Thematic Bible: Wives obtained
Thematic Bible
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Verse Concepts
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Verse Concepts
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept'sheep .
Verse Concepts
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Verse Concepts
Marriage » Wives obtained » By kidnapping
and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty. And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
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