Genesis 31:41
31:41 This was my lot
for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave
for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
Genesis 34:12
34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive,
and I’ll give
whatever you ask
of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”
Exodus 22:16-17
Moral and Ceremonial Laws
22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.
22:17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
Exodus 22:2
22:2 “If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.
Exodus 3:14
3:14 God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Hosea 3:2
3:2 So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley
to purchase her.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble
12:12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram,
then Israel worked to acquire a wife;
he tended sheep to pay for her.