Exodus 22:17
Good News Translation
But if her father refuses to let him marry her, he must pay the father a sum of money equal to the bride price for a virgin.

New Revised Standard Version
But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.

Contemporary English Version
But if her father refuses to let her marry the man, the bride price must still be paid.

New American Bible
If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still pay him the bride price for virgins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.

utterly

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: . . .

pay.

Genesis 23:16 And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

dowry of virgins

Genesis 34:12 Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

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.

1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

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.18Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:20
And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

Genesis 34:12
Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

1 Samuel 18:25
And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

Exodus 22:16
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