Gen. 34:12

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Ask me.On the practice of purchasing wives, De La Roque says, "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters.

They form part of the riches of the house.

Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, 'Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry her."

dowry.

Gen 24:53; Gen 29:18; Gen 31:41; Exod 22:16; Exod 22:17; Deut 22:28; Deut 22:29; 1Sam 18:25-27

2Sam 3:14; Hos 3:2; Matt 14:17