Add parallel Print Page Options

Social Laws. 15 (A)When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall make her his wife by paying the bride price. 16 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still pay him the bride price for virgins.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 22:16 The bride price for virgins: fifty shekels according to Dt 22:29.

15 But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.(A)

Social Responsibility

16 “If a man seduces a virgin(B) who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price,(C) and she shall be his wife.

Read full chapter