28 (A)If a man find a maid that is not betrothed, and take her, and lie with her, and they be found,

29 Then the man that lay with her, shall give unto the maid’s father fifty shekels of silver: and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.

30 ¶ No man shall [a]take his father’s wife, nor shall uncover his father’s skirt.

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:30 He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning hereby all other degrees forbidden, Lev. 18.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,(A) 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.[b](B)

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:29 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
  2. Deuteronomy 22:30 In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.