And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.