Marriage: Presents Given to Parents to Secure Their Favor

Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.

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

…then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.

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