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Ask me: On the practice of purchasing wives, Deut. Lam. Roque says, "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters. They form part of the riches of the house. Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, 'Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry her."
dowry: Gen 24:53, Gen 29:18, Gen 31:41; Exo 22:16-17; Deu 22:28-29; 1Sa 18:25-27; 2Sa 3:14; Hos 3:2; Mat 14:17