Thematic Bible: Wives obtained
Thematic Bible
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
Verse Concepts
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Verse Concepts
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, 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 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 us to complain, that we will say to them, Be favorable to them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give to them at this time, that ye 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 to their inheritance, and repaired the cities and dwelt in them.
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