Thematic Bible: Wives obtained


Thematic Bible



And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley; Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals


And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch. Verse ConceptsSheepWagesIsrael FleeingOther Wivessyria

and also Ruth the Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, I have bought to myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance; and the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place; witnesses ye are to-day.' Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningOffspringPurchasingTownWidowsNamed Wives

and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances -- then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin; and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us by them, for we have not taken to each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time that ye are guilty.' And the sons of Benjamin do so, and take women according to their number, out of the dancers whom they have taken violently away; and they go, and turn back unto their inheritance, and build the cities, and dwell in them.