Verse 2

So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, a homer of barley, and a lethech of barley.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 27:16 : 16 If someone dedicates part of their field as their possession to the LORD, the valuation will be based on how much seed is required to sow it—a homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
  • Ezek 45:11 : 11 The measurements for the ephah and the bath shall be the same: both will be one-tenth of a homer. The homer will be the standard measure.
  • 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul replied, 'Say to David, "The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies."' Saul’s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.
  • Isa 5:10 : 10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield only a single bath of wine, and a homer of seed will produce merely an ephah of grain.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
  • Gen 34:12 : 12 Set the bride price and gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you ask me; just give me the young woman as a wife."
  • Exod 22:17 : 17 Do not allow a sorceress to live.