If a man take a wife and this woman give her husband a maid-servant, and she bear him children, but this man wishes to take another wife, this shall not be permitted to him;

Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone to care for you when you are old. Perhaps she needs a dowry.

The past, when the farmer's daughters get married, there must be fighting for the dowry of paper, paper bucket are in pairs, dual map is a good thing.

The obligation to return the dowry and to pay the jointure (ketubah) served as a good security against divorce on insufficient grounds.

We still doubt it in that it's a little inferior as a dowry .