² So I bought her for fifteen shekels^[a] of silver and about a homer and a lethek^[b] of barley.

¹¹ The ephah^(A) and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both.

¹⁶ “‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer^[a] of barley seed.

¹² Make the price for the bride^(A) and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”

²⁵ Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price^(A) for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge^(B) on his enemies.’” Saul’s plan^(C) was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.

¹⁷ If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.

⁴¹ It was like this for the twenty years^(A) I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters^(B) and six years for your flocks,^(C) and you changed my wages^(D) ten times.^(E)