Exodus 22:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.
Douay-Rheims

אִם־מָאֵ֧ן יְמָאֵ֛ן אָבִ֖יהָ לְתִתָּ֣הּ ל֑וֹ כֶּ֣סֶף יִשְׁקֹ֔ל כְּמֹ֖הַר הַבְּתוּלֹֽת׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Wlastow G.K.

19th centuryCommentator

Any man who enticed an engaged woman was subject to death (Deut. 22:23-27). In the case of a virgin who was not engaged, the offender was required to pay her father fifty shekels of silver and was obligated to marry her, with no right to divorce her at any time (Deut. 22:28, 29).

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Deut 22:28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:
Deut 22:29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.
Gen 34:2And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin.
Gen 34:4And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.