Bible Verses About Dowry

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.