"Do you feel no shame in selling your own wife to the sailors?"
But my goodness I'd as soon think of selling my wife.
"But they may not sell their children, nor a man his wife."
How am I going to sell your wife to them?
Then he said to me all at once: 'I will sell you my wife.'
The first type was when a husband sold his wife to a man with whom she had been committing adultery.
The second type was when a husband sold his wife because she had betrayed him or because they were no longer able to get along.
There's not a man in that whole country who wouldn't sell his wife to buy a sheep.
He had sold his own wife, the mother of his children.
Once, someone tried to sell his wife for two cents.