Marriage: A Dowry Given to the Woman's Parents Before
Source: TTT
Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Genesis 34:12
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
1 Samuel 18:27, 28
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage. / When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.