OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 22:17

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17

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

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Verse 17. Money. Fifty sicles, as it is expressed, Deuteronomy 22:29. If the maid were of high birth, the magistrates might inflict other punishments on the seducer.

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