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: the measure of it shall be after the homer.
• 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul said, Thus shall you 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{Literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons} And a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)-- only one tenth of what was sown.}"
• Gen 31:41 : 41 These twenty years have I 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.