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16 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still pay him the bride price for virgins.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:16 The bride price for virgins: fifty shekels according to Dt 22:29.

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16 “If a man seduces a virgin(A) who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price,(B) and she shall be his wife.

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