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Exodus 22:17

If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Dowry;   Marriage;   Money;   Seduction;   Virgin;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dowry;   Home;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Sexual Activities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Marriage;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dowry;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Virgin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Kill, Killing;   Money;   Punishment;   Sexuality, Human;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dowry;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crimes and Punishments;   Exodus, Book of;   Rape;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Exodus;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sin;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Betrothal;   Sorcery;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dowry;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, the Book of the;   Crime;   Dowry;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Capital Punishment;   Dowry;   Magic;   Marriage;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
King James Version
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Lexham English Bible
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he will weigh out money according to the bride price for the virgin.
New Century Version
But if her father refuses to allow his daughter to marry him, the man must still give the usual payment for a bride who has never had sexual relations.
New English Translation
If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
Amplified Bible
"If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must [still] pay money equivalent to the dowry of virgins.
New American Standard Bible
"If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If her father refuse to giue her to him, hee shal pay money, according to ye dowry of virgins.
Legacy Standard Bible
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
Contemporary English Version
But if her father refuses to let her marry the man, the bride price must still be paid.
Complete Jewish Bible
"You are not to permit a sorceress to live.
Darby Translation
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.
Easy-to-Read Version
If the father refuses to allow his daughter to marry him, then the man must still pay the full amount for her.
English Standard Version
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
George Lamsa Translation
If her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of a virgin.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must pay an amount in silver equal to the bridal price for virgins.
Literal Translation
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf hir father refuse to geue her vnto him, the shall he weye there the money, acordinge to the dowry of virgins.
American Standard Version
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if her father refuse to geue her vnto him, he shal pay money, according to the dowrie of virgins.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
King James Version (1611)
If her father vtterly refuse to giue her vnto him, he shall pay money according to the dowrie of virgins.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if her father positively refuse, and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay compensation to her father according to the amount of the dowry of virgins.
English Revised Version
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Berean Standard Bible
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the fadir of the virgyn nyle yyue, he schal yelde money, bi the maner of dower, which virgyns weren wont to take.
Young's Literal Translation
if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.
Update Bible Version
If her father completely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Webster's Bible Translation
If her father shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dower of virgins.
World English Bible
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
New King James Version
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the bride-price of virgins.
New Living Translation
But if her father refuses to let him marry her, the man must still pay him an amount equal to the bride price of a virgin.
New Life Bible
If her father will not give her to him, he will pay the wedding gift that is to be paid for women who have never had a man.
New Revised Standard
But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If her father utterly refuse, to give her to him, silver, shall he weigh out, according to the purchase-price of 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.
Revised Standard Version
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

Contextual Overview

16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife. 17 If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins. 18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death. 19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death. 20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord. 21 Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt. 22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead. 23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear; 24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

utterly: Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4

pay: Heb. weigh, Genesis 23:16

dowry of virgins: Genesis 34:12, Deuteronomy 22:29, 1 Samuel 18:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:18 - I will serve Exodus 21:9 - betrothed her unto Deuteronomy 22:28 - General Hosea 3:2 - I bought

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Genesis 13:16
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 17:6
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
Genesis 22:1
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
Genesis 22:2
And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
Genesis 22:10
And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him,.... For wife, either because of his character, family, or circumstances; or, however, being disagreeable to him on one account or another, and therefore will by no means agree to marry his daughter to him, and not only give him an absolute denial, but resolutely persist in it: the Targum of Jonathan has it,

"if it seems not good to him;''

if he do not like nor choose to marry her; and some add also, if she herself do not approve of marrying him:

he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins; as virgins on marriage have usually given them, according to their rank and dignity: here is no sum fixed, but the Targum of Jonathan is,

"he shall be mulcted in fifty shekels of silver,''

which is taken from Deuteronomy 22:29 though that seems to be not altogether a like case with this; for though it respects a virgin not betrothed, as here, yet one that has been forced, and therefore the man was obliged to marry her, and never put her away; and the mulct or fine was to be paid to the damsel's father and not to her: the Septuagint version here says, it was to be paid to the father.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references.


 
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