Verse 2

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 27:16 : 16 "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
• Ezek 45:11 : 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.
• 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
• Isa 5:10 : 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
• Gen 31:41 : 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
• Gen 34:12 : 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
• Exod 22:17 : 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.