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Contemporary English Version

Exodus 22:17

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

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for 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 The Lord said: Suppose a young woman has never been married and isn't engaged. If a man talks her into having sex, he must pay the bride price and marry her. 17 But if her father refuses to let her marry the man, the bride price must still be paid. 18 Death is the punishment for witchcraft. 19 Death is the punishment for having sex with an animal. 20 Death is the punishment for offering sacrifices to any god except me. 21 Do not mistreat or abuse foreigners who live among you. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt. 22 Do not mistreat widows or orphans. 23 If you do, they will beg for my help, and I will come to their rescue. 24 In fact, I will get so angry that I will kill your men and make widows of their wives and orphans of their children.

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
I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.
Genesis 13:16
I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and someday it will be easier to count the specks of dust than to count your descendants.
Genesis 15:5
Then the Lord took Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have."
Genesis 17:6
I will give you a lot of descendants, and in the future they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.
Genesis 22:1
Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him. Abraham answered, "Here I am, Lord ."
Genesis 22:2
The Lord said, "Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar."
Genesis 22:9
when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.
Genesis 22:10
He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.
Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.
Genesis 22:14
Abraham named that place "The Lord Will Provide." And even now people say, "On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided."

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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