Verse 12

multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:16-17 : 16 `And when a man doth entice a virgin who `is' not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife; 17 if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.
  • Deut 22:28-29 : 28 `When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found, 29 then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.
  • 1 Sam 18:25-27 : 25 And Saul saith, `Thus do ye say to David, There is no delight to the king in dowry, but in a hundred foreskins of the Philistines -- to be avenged on the enemies of the king;' and Saul thought to cause David to fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And his servants declare to David these words, and the thing is right in the eyes of David, to be son-in-law to the king; and the days have not been full, 27 and David riseth and goeth, he and his men, and smiteth among the Philistines two hundred men, and David bringeth in their foreskins, and they set them before the king, to be son-in-law to the king; and Saul giveth to him Michal his daughter for a wife.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sendeth messengers unto Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, saying, `Give up my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself with a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'
  • Hos 3:2 : 2 And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;
  • Matt 14:17 : 17 And they say to him, `We have not here except five loaves, and two fishes.'
  • Gen 24:53 : 53 and the servant taketh out vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and giveth to Rebekah; precious things also he hath given to her brother and to her mother.
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, `I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 `This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;