Bible Cross References
dowry
Genesis 24:53
And the servant brought out articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
Genesis 31:41
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.
Exodus 22:16
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.
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,
Deuteronomy 22:29
then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he cannot put her away all his days.
1 Samuel 18:25-27
25
And Saul said, Thus you shall say to David: The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26
And when his servants told David these words, the thing was agreeable in David's eyes, to become the king's son-in-law. And the day had not ended;
27
therefore David rose up and went out, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
2 Samuel 3:14
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.
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for myself with fifteen pieces of silver, and with a homer and a half of barley.
Matthew 14:17
And they said to Him, We have here only five loaves and two fish.