¹⁸ Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

¹² Jacob fled into the country of Aram, And Israel served to get a wife, And for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

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.

¹⁶ "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

¹⁷ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

²⁰ Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

³⁰ He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

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."

¹⁴ David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.