Marriage: A Dowry Given to the Woman's Parents Before

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”

David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.

When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.