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Deuteronomy 22:29 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 22 · verse 29
Then 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 22:29 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 22:29 in context
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- damsel'snaʻărâha girlH5291 →
- humbledʻânâhto depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6031 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- silverkeçephsilverH3701 →
- fiftychămishshîymfiftyH2572 →
- givenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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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