⁵³ Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing^(A) and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts^(B) to her brother and to her mother.

¹² Make the price for the bride^(A) and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”

²⁹ he shall pay her father fifty shekels^[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

²⁵ Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price^(A) for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge^(B) on his enemies.’” Saul’s plan^(C) was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.

² So I bought her for fifteen shekels^[a] of silver and about a homer and a lethek^[b] of barley.