Exodus 22:16

World English Bible (2000)

"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

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  • Deut 22:28-29 : 28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady'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 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

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  • Deut 22:13-30
    18 verses
    86%

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

    14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

    15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

    16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;

    17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

    18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

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

    20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

    21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

    23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

    24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

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

    27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

    28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady'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.

    30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

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

  • 20 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 5:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

    13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

  • 15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

  • Exod 21:7-11
    5 verses
    75%

    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

    8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married 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.

    9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

    10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

    11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

  • 30 You shall betroth 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 use its fruit.

  • 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

  • 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

  • 7 What man is there who has pledged to be married 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%

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • 13 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • 32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • 36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

  • 14 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 deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

  • 7 It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."

  • 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

  • 6 "If she is [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

  • 1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

  • 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

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

  • 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

  • 13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

  • 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

  • 20 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

  • 3 "Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,