Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

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

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

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