* 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