Exodus 22:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 34:12 : 12 Ask 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.
  • 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 And Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires no dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
  • Deut 22:29 : 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 23:16 : 16 And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son. 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

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  • Exod 22:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

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

    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • Deut 22:23-30
    8 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Deut 22:13-21
    9 verses
    82%

    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.

  • Exod 21:7-11
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Num 30:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    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,

    4And her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

    5But if her father disallows her on the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand, and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

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

  • Deut 21:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13And she shall put off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and mourn for her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

    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 34:12
    74%

    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.

  • Num 30:16
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.'

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him; and if he stands firm, and says, 'I do not want to take her,'

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these he shall not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

  • Lev 19:20
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:36-38
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

    37Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

    38So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12If the priest's daughter also is married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

    13But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food: but no stranger shall eat thereof.

  • Judg 15:2
    71%

    2Her father said, I truly thought you hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her instead, I ask you.

  • Num 30:8
    71%

    8But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of no effect, and the LORD shall forgive her.

  • Num 30:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10And if she vowed in her husband's house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

    11And her husband heard it and held his peace at her and did not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

  • Deut 20:7
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 24:3
    70%

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • Exod 21:30
    70%

    30If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life whatever is imposed on him.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    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.