If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemi
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife be
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hun