³⁰ However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.^(A)

¹⁸ and the elders^(A) shall take the man and punish him. ¹⁹ They shall fine him a hundred shekels^[a] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.