² So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

¹¹ The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.

¹⁶ ‘If a man ^[a]dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

¹² Ask me ever so much ^(A)dowry^[a] and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.”

²⁵ Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any ^(A)dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take ^(B)vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul ^(C)thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

¹⁷ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the ^(A)bride-price of virgins.

⁴¹ Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I ^(A)served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^(B)you have changed my wages ten times.