¹⁸ And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

¹² In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

⁴¹ These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

¹⁶ If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

¹⁷ If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

²⁰ And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

³⁰ Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

¹² However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

¹⁴ And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.

² So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;