'This [is] to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

'And when a man doth entice a virgin who [is] not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.

And David sendeth messengers unto Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, saying, 'Give up my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself with a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

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