Then he brought out clothing and silver and gold jewelry, and gave them to Rebecca. He also gave expensive gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, "I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel."

It was like that for the whole twenty years I was with you. For fourteen years I worked to win your two daughters---and six years for your flocks. And even then, you changed my wages ten times.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, he must pay the bride price for her and marry her.

But if her father refuses to let him marry her, he must pay the father a sum of money equal to the bride price for a virgin.

"Suppose a man is caught raping a young woman who is not engaged.

He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

and Saul ordered them to tell David: "All the king wants from you as payment for the bride are the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies." (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.)

David and his men went and killed two hundred Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him, so that he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.

And David also sent messengers to Ishbosheth to say, "Give me back my wife Michal. I paid a hundred Philistine foreskins in order to marry her."

So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her.

"All we have here are five loaves and two fish," they replied.