◄ Exodus 22:16 ►
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Good News Translation
"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, he must pay the bride price for her and marry her.

New Revised Standard Version
When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married, and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a young woman has never had sex and isn't engaged. If a man talks her into having sex, he must pay the bride price and marry her.

New American Bible
When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall make her his wife by paying the bride price.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

a man entice

Genesis 34:2-4 And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin. . . .

Deuteronomy 22:28,29 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment: . . .

Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
16If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.17If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:18
Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

Exodus 22:15
But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.

Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

Deuteronomy 22:29
He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

Exodus 22:15
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