Genesis 31:41

31:41 This was my lot ¹  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave ²  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, ³  and I’ll give ⁴  whatever you ask ⁵  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Exodus 22:17

22:17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

Exodus 22:1

Laws about Property

22:1 ⁶ (21:37) ⁷  “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back ⁸  five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep. ⁹ 

Exodus 18:25

18:25 Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

[31:41]  ¹ tn Heb “this to me.”

[31:41]  ² tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

[34:12]  ³ tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.

[34:12]  ⁴ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

[34:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “say.”

[22:1]  ⁶ sn The next section of laws concerns property rights. These laws protected property from thieves and oppressors, but also set limits to retribution. The message could be: God’s laws demand that the guilty make restitution for their crimes against property and that the innocent be exonerated.

[22:1]  ⁷ sn Beginning with 22:1, the verse numbers through 22:31 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 22:1 ET = 21:37 HT, 22:2 ET = 22:1 HT, etc., through 22:31 ET = 22:30 HT. Thus in the English Bible ch. 22 has 31 verses, while in the Hebrew Bible it has 30 verses, with the one extra verse attached to ch. 21 in the Hebrew Bible.

[22:1]  ⁸ tn The imperfect tense here has the nuance of obligatory imperfect – he must pay back.

[22:1]  ⁹ tn בָּקַר (baqar) and צֹאן (tso’n) are the categories to which the ox and the sheep belonged, so that the criminal had some latitude in paying back animals.