Exodus 22:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

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  • Deut 22:28-29 : 28 If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29 Then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
  • Gen 34:2-4 : 2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. 3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to her. 4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this young woman as a wife.

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  • Deut 22:13-30
    18 verses
    86%

    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

    15Then shall the father of the young woman, and her mother, take and bring forth the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

    16And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her;

    17And behold, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a virgin; and yet these are the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

    18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him.

    19And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    20But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman,

    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

    22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away evil from Israel.

    23If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

    24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

    25But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

    26But to the young woman you shall do nothing; there is in the young woman no sin worthy of death; for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.

    27For he found her in the field and the betrothed young woman cried out, and there was no one to save her.

    28If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

    29Then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • Exod 22:17
    84%

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Lev 19:20
    78%

    20And whoever lies carnally with a woman who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 5:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

  • Exod 22:15
    76%

    15But if its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

  • Exod 21:7-11
    5 verses
    75%

    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

    8If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

    9And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Deut 21:11
    74%

    11And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, that you would have her as your wife;

  • Num 5:20
    73%

    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

  • Deut 20:7
    73%

    7And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Prov 6:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Lev 21:13
    72%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • 1 Cor 7:36
    72%

    36But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

  • Deut 21:14
    71%

    14And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

  • Gen 39:7
    71%

    7And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

  • Prov 6:29
    71%

    29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

  • Num 30:6
    71%

    6And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which she bound her soul,

  • Deut 24:1
    71%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Prov 7:21
    71%

    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she prevailed over him.

  • Prov 20:16
    71%

    16Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • Num 30:16
    71%

    16These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.

  • Gen 38:16
    71%

    16He turned to her by the roadside and said, Let me come in to you; for he did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?

  • Prov 27:13
    71%

    13Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

  • Gen 34:12
    71%

    12Ask me for ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to your saying to me, but give me the young woman as a wife.

  • Lev 18:20
    70%

    20Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

  • Num 30:3
    70%

    3If a woman also makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth,