{A marriage feast} (gamous). The plural, as here
( 2,3,4,9 ), is very common in the papyri for the wedding
festivities (the several acts of feasting) which lasted for days,
seven in  Jud 14:17 . The very phrase here, gamous poiein,
occurs in the Doric of Thera about B.C. 200. The singular gamos
is common in the papyri for the wedding contract, but Field
(_Notes_, p. 16) sees no difference between the singular here in
 22:8  and the plural (see also  Ge 29:22  Es 9:22 ; Macc.
10:58).