Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the girl as a wife.

If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give a dowry, the purchase price for her to be his wife.

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

So I bought her for myself with fifteen pieces of silver, and with a homer and a half of barley.

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he kept sheep for a wife.