Exodus 22:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:12 : 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."
  • 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now 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 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 23:16 : 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. 4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

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  • Exod 22:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

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

    16"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.

  • Deut 22:23-30
    8 verses
    83%

    23If 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;

    24then 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.

    25But 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:

    26but 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;

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

    28If 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;

    29then 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.

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

  • Deut 22:13-21
    9 verses
    82%

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

    14and 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;"

    15then 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;

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

    17and 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.

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

    19and 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.

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

    21then 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.

  • Exod 21:7-11
    5 verses
    78%

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

    8If 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.

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

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

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

  • Num 30:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    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,

    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 disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

    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,

  • Deut 21:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail 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.

    14It 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.

  • Gen 34:12
    74%

    12Ask 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."

  • Num 30:16
    74%

    16These 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.

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;"

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

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

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

  • Lev 19:20
    72%

    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.

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

    36But 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.

    37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

    38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

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

  • Judg 15:2
    71%

    2Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead."

  • Num 30:8
    71%

    8But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her.

  • Num 30:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10"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 didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

  • Deut 20:7
    70%

    7What 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."

  • Deut 24:3
    70%

    3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Exod 21:30
    70%

    30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1When 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.