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.

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;

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.

She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich and distinguished man;

She had no dowry no expectations no means of being known understood loved wedded by any rich and distinguished man;