Thematic Bible: Wives obtained
Thematic Bible
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
And Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of this place: you are witnesses this day.
Marriage » Wives obtained » By kidnapping
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come you 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 unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for you did not give unto them at this time, that you should be guilty. And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
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