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.
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Gill's Exposition
Ask me never so much dowry and gift,.... Or "multiply them exceedingly" (i), fix them at as high a rate as may be thought fit; the "dowry" was what a man gave to a woman at her marriage; for in those…
- Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Gen 34:1-5 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the…
Adam Clarke
Ask me never so much dowry - See Clarke on Gen 29:20 (note), etc. See the law relative to this, Exo 22:16, Exo 22:17.
Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many…
Cambridge Bible
dowry and gift The "dowry," or mohar, is the present made to the parents or relations, cf. Gen 24:53; Exo 22:16; 1Sa 18:25. The rendering "dowry" hardly, therefore, gives the correct idea to English…
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