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     * Ask me.
       On the practice of purchasing wives, De La Roque says,
       "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase
       his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as
       when they have many daughters.  They form part of the riches
       of the house.  Accordingly, when a young man would treat with
       a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to
       him, 'Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six
       camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her
       family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry
       her."

     * dowry.
     # 24:53; 29:18; 31:41; Ex 22:16,17; De 22:28,29; 1Sa 18:25-27|
     # 2Sa 3:14; Ho 3:2; Mt 14:17|