Related for Kiddushin 8:3
ותנא מייתי לה מהכא דתניא (דברים כד, א) כי יקח איש אשה ובעלה והיה אם לא תמצא חן בעיניו כי מצא בה וגו' אין קיחה אלא בכסף וכן הוא אומר (בראשית כג, יג) נתתי כסף השדה קח ממני
For it was taught: When a man taketh a wife, and hath intercourse with her, then it shall be, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, etc. ;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXIV, 1.');"><sup>3</sup></span> 'taking' is only by means of money, and thus it is written: I will give the money for the field: take it of me.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XXIII, 13.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 24:1) "If a man take a woman": We are hereby taught that a woman is acquired (as a wife) by money. For (without this verse) it would follow otherwise, viz.: If a Hebrew handmaid, who is not acquired by cohabitation is acquired by money, then a woman, who is acquired by cohabitation, how much more so should she be acquired by money! — (No,) this is refuted by the instance of a yevamah (leviratess), who is acquired by cohabitation, but is not acquired by money. Do not wonder, then, if a woman, who, though she is acquired by cohabitation were not to be acquired by money. It must, therefore, be written "If a man take a woman," to teach that a woman is acquired by money.
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