Verse 17

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

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.