These twenty years have I been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years among your sheep, and you falsely changed my wages for ten lambs.

Multiply [your demand of] dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as you shall say to me, only you shall give to me this young woman for a wife.

And if anyone deceive a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her for a wife to himself.

And if her father positively refuses, and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay compensation to her father according to the amount of the dowry of virgins.

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, saying, Restore me my wife Michal, whom I took for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

So I hired [her] to myself for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.

And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.