Exodus 22:17
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If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
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Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.