Exodus 22:16
Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.
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- Deut 22:28-29 : 28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered. 29 The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
- Gen 34:2-4 : 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her. 3 Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her. 4 Shechem said to his father Hamor,“Acquire this young girl as my wife.”
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- Deut 22:13-3018 verses86%
13 Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,
14 accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
15 Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.
16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders,“I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.
17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying,‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.
18 The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.
19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
22 If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.
23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,
24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
25 But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.
26 You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,
27 for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.
29 The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
30 (23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
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17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
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20 Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Num 5:12-132 verses76%
12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,
13 and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–
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15 If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.
- Exod 21:7-115 verses75%
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
11 If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
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30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
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11 if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
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20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”
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7 Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
- Prov 6:25-262 verses73%
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
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13 He must take a wife who is a virgin.
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32 “‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
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36 If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
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14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
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7 Soon after these things, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said,“Come to bed with me.”
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29 So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
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6 Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,
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1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
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21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.
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16 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
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16 These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
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16 He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”
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13 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.
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12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”
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20 You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
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3 Vows Made by Single Women“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the LORD or places herself under an obligation,