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Deuteronomy 22:28-29 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 22 · verses 28–29
28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.Deuteronomy 22:28-29 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 in context
26But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
30A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.
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Key words (Strong's)
- betrothedʼârasto engage for matrimonyH781 →
- humbledʻânâhto depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6031 →
- damselnaʻărâha girlH5291 →
- virginbᵉthûwlâha virginH1330 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- silverkeçephsilverH3701 →
- fiftychămishshîymfiftyH2572 →
- findmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
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These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-30