Bible Verses About Marriage: Presents given to parents to secure their favor
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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Verses on Presents given to parents to secure their favor
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: