Exodus 22:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 22:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 23:16Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
- Genesis 34:12Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- Leviticus 20:6Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
- Deuteronomy 7:3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Deuteronomy 18:10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- Deuteronomy 22:29then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
- 1 Samuel 18:25Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 28:3Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
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