dowries

5 subentries

• dowries
• dowry was once reward for sex services (82:3.10)
• man could take wife, children after paying bride price (84:2.5)
• often collected by temporary temple prostitution (89:7.5)
• originally, payment to bride’s father for wife (83:3sec)
• upon divorce, repayment required (83:3.4)

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