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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Exigez de moi une forte dot et beaucoup de présents, et je donnerai ce que vous me direz; mais accordez-moi pour femme la jeune fille.
KJV
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
to the bridegroom's dwelling: and that this is shown by the words of Sichem to Jacob and his sons ( Gn. 34:12 ): "Raise the dowry, and ask gifts," and from Ex. 22:16 : "If a man seduce a virgin . . . and lie with her, he shall endow her, and have her to wife." Hence the adornment…
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