Topical Bible: Marriage: Wives Obtained by Purchase

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Genesis 29:20
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
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Ruth 4:10
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
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Hosea 3:2
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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Hosea 12:12
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
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The First Native Converts and Christian Schools
... rejoicing, and in Christ's love believing, I obtained mercy. ... But the marriage difficulty
was early forced on him ... to be done with converts whose wives would not ...
/.../smith/the life of william carey/chapter vi the first native.htm

Letter Lxvi. To Pammachius.
... a patrician by his parentage and marriage, rich in ... scatter on the graves of their
wives violets, roses ... of valour,"this great office is now obtained by merely ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter lxvi to pammachius.htm

Chapter xxiv
... such a situation if it had actually obtained; especially since v ... a gift to those
who gave her in marriage. ... that the Hebrews were wont to purchase their wives. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxiv.htm

The Polity Settled by Moses; and How He Disappeared from among ...
... like circumstances; and while you have now obtained plenty yourselves ... will be for
the solace of wives under their ... that he is averse to this marriage, whether he ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 8 the polity settled.htm

Answers to Prayer
... miles distant, on the 19th of March, the wives of the ... if he had asked a reliable
neighbor and obtained his promise ... He led me to a choice and marriage, which I ...
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Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
... her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he ... Are they sold only as wives
and daughters-in-law ... have all not only been illegally obtained as servants ...
/.../an appeal to the christian women of the south/appeal to the christian women.htm

Period iii. The Dissolution of the Imperial State Church and the ...
... baptism, but have left their wives and children ... deliberation, beginning probably
before his marriage with Chrotechildis ... of the episcopate which he has obtained. ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period iii the dissolution of.htm

Period I: the Imperial State Church of the Undivided Empire, or ...
... If any shipman shall have obtained surreptitiously or in any ... live as if by the compact
of marriage they were ... of this benefit to husbands and wives as regards ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period i the imperial state.htm

Chaldaean Civilization
... union, and many a son contracted a marriage after this ... Whether they were legitimate
wives or not, the women of ... were lavished on them, or they obtained them for ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

Faustus States his Objections to the Morality of the Law and the ...
... a pleasure which all must feel is obtained from this ... apostle speaks as a great mystery
in marriage, as referring ... reason to men who had several wives; and that ...
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