Thematic Bible: Wives obtained
Thematic Bible
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.
And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.
Jacob fled [to] the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over [sheep].
And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his [birth] place. You [are] witnesses today."
Marriage » Wives obtained » By kidnapping
and watch and look; when the daughters of Shiloh dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards and seize for yourselves a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And if their fathers or their brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Allow us to have them, because we did not capture a wife for each man in the battle, and because you did not give [them] to them, {or else} you would have been guilty.'" The descendants of Benjamin did likewise, and they took wives for each of them from the dancers whom they seized, and they went and returned to their territory, and they rebuilt the cities and they lived in them.
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