Verse 2

So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 27:16 : 16 Redemption of Vowed Fields“‘If a man consecrates to the LORD some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.
• Ezek 45:11 : 11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.
• 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul replied,“Here is what you should say to David:‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’”(Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
• Isa 5:10 : 10 Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”
• Gen 31:41 : 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!
• Gen 34:12 : 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!”
• Exod 22:17 : 17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.