yucky verses in the Bible

... groom paid the girl’s father a “brideprice”—usually slightly more than the cost of ... so in practice the idea of a “brideprice,” barbaric as it was, probably reduced the...of her sin.” Virgins fetched a higher brideprice than non-virgins. As such, if ...rapist pays his victim’s father the brideprice and marries her. He cannot divorce her...the rapist pays for his victim’s brideprice is half of what a man ...

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... Arwen, good for nought he needed but love alone. Love. Elrond, too, had surprised him: Elrond is something like to Thingol, the father of Beren's fay, who demanded of Beren One-hand the Silmaril for brideprice. She stood now, not far off, watching him. In his countenance she saw his thoughts. He is what the world is made of: broken bread. He is what the Powers made the earth of, made all Arda ...

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yucky verses in the Bible

remaking the world